Replying to critics who said that he had repudiated religion, Abraham L. Feinberg, who more than a month ago resigned from Temple Israel, declared on Friday in a speech before the Freethinkers of America that his resignation was not to be interpreted as a repudiation of religion but as a protest against the over-organization of the synagogue which has stultified true religion.
Declaring that only a “pronouncedly and honestly liberal program” can revitalize the church, Dr. Feinberg declared that in such a liberal program the Bible should be considered as a “human document, sweet, precious and beautiful, but without an atom of authority beyond the inherent truth and beauty of its message.” He also thought that all elements of mystery and magic should be removed from a liberalized religion which should also revise its traditional concept of God.
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