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Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 12, No. 6, June 24th, 1949.

Pie in the Sky My Eye?

Pie in the Sky My Eye?

To debunk an idea is one of the best ways of getting it put aside as fact. For this reason the Christian view is called "pie in the sky" and then not discussed at all. Instead there are some quotations from the Bible calculated to point out that perhaps Christianity had said something sensible. This is labelled Brown-shirt gutter philosophy and then left to be pointers for Bolshevism. This childish evasion ignores the issue. Is there any evidence sufficiently strong to contradict Christianity?

The communists unable to answer prefer to debunk the whole thing. Mr. Wadman's critic does so because he knows his propaganda. Nothing will allow his biased mind to be imperilled in this deception so dear to his radical vanity, and his fanatic refusal to admit another point of view leads him on to bigger lies and nastier deceptions.

The rank and file communists know their party slogans, the villifying catchcries, the glib answers to knotty questions but a discussion of essentials must be avoided for those who become too interested in that sort of thing seem to have trouble-Communism's essentials are its weakest point since they are based on distortions and philosophical errors. (See "Communism and Man." F. J. Sheed.)