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The Soviet’s war on religion has done organized religion more good than harm, and the Bolsheviks deserve a vote of thanks, declared Rabbi Abraham L. Feinberg, who recently resigned his pulpit at Temple Israel, speaking at the Social Problems Club of New York University. “Modern religion needs the intense social idealism and the willingness to suffer martyrdom that is in the Communist Party in America,” Rabbi Feinberg said.
In criticizing “organized religion” for its lack of vitality and its failure to take an interest in the problems of the “young intellectuals,” Rabbi Feinberg declared that “one act of violence against the former church in Russia has done more to strengthen organized religion in America than 100 sermons.”
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