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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 2, No. 13 July 5, 1939

New Religions

New Religions

Communism, and in their various forms, the totalitarian States as exemplified in the National Socialism of Germany and the Fascism of Italy, are all systems that deny one of the fundamental principles of human liberty as stated by Christianity—all men have the right to freedom, because they are all equal in dignity as the children of God. Communism, Nazism, Fascism, all deny the separate personal dignity of man, which is the only foundation of the liberty which is the essence of Democracy. They are religions that call on man to sink his individuality in the mystic urge of serving the race of Germans, the race of Romans, or the classless race or world-workers. Lumped together, they are the "New Paganism," and their quarrel is with Christianity, which asserts the individual dignity of each man. When Christianity refuses to hand man over to the God of State it fights for the very basis of Democracy—the separate personal dignity of each man.

There are two camps, but the contending forces are not Fascism and Democracy. They are Christianity and the "New Paganism."

—G.J.H.