The writer of the Gospel of St. John, unscrupulous politicians and many schools and colleges, were accused Monday night of religious prejudice at the religious good-will dinner at the Southern Hotel.
Jews, Catholics and Protestants participated in the function, given under auspices of the Religious Good Will League, Inc.
The Rev. Dr. C. C. Morrison, editor of the “Christian Century,” said the fourth Gospel, in ascribing the crucifixion and the hostility leading up to the crucifixion of Christ to the Jews, shows as much prejudice against Jews as any historian who might ascribe the death of Socrates to the Greeks.
The Rev. Dr. George Johnson, of the Catholic University of Washington, cited the last Presidential election when, he said, millions of Americans voted against a candidate for no other reason than that he was a Catholic.
Rabbi Louis J. Schwefel, of Washington, who claimed there was too much religious prejudice in hundreds of colleges and schools of education, and among groups of supposedly intelligent people a class distinction, said that the hope of relieving the world of prejudice lay in teaching the truth about the different people to youth.
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