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99:0.1 [[Religion]] achieves its highest [[social]] [[ministry]] when it has least [[connection]] with the [[secular]] [[institutions]] of [[society]]. In [[past]] ages, since social [[reforms]] were largely confined to the [[moral]] realms, [[religion]] did not have to [[adjust]] its [[attitude]] to extensive [[changes]] in [[economic]] and [[political]] systems. The chief [[problem]] of [[religion]] was the endeavor to replace [[evil]] with [[good]] within the existing social order of [[political]] and [[economic]] [[culture]]. [[Religion]] has thus indirectly tended to perpetuate the [[established]] order of [[society]], to foster the [[maintenance]] of the existent type of [[civilization]].
99:0.2 But [[religion]] should not be directly concerned either with the [[creation]] of new [[social]] orders or with the [[preservation]] of old ones. True [[religion]] does [[oppose]] [[violence]] as a [[technique]] of [[social]] [[evolution]], but it does not [[oppose]] the [[intelligent]] [[efforts]] of [[society]] to adapt its usages and [[adjust]] its [[institutions]] to new [[economic]] conditions and cultural requirements.
99:0.3 [[Religion]] did approve the occasional [[social]] [[reforms]] of [[past]] centuries, but in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century twentieth century] it is of [[necessity]] called upon to face [[adjustment]] to extensive and continuing [[social]] reconstruction. Conditions of living alter so rapidly that [[institutional]] [[modifications]] must be greatly [[accelerated]], and [[religion]] must accordingly quicken its [[adaptation]] to this new and ever-changing [[social]] order.
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[[Category: Paper 99 - The Social Problems of Religion]]
99:0.1 [[Religion]] achieves its highest [[social]] [[ministry]] when it has least [[connection]] with the [[secular]] [[institutions]] of [[society]]. In [[past]] ages, since social [[reforms]] were largely confined to the [[moral]] realms, [[religion]] did not have to [[adjust]] its [[attitude]] to extensive [[changes]] in [[economic]] and [[political]] systems. The chief [[problem]] of [[religion]] was the endeavor to replace [[evil]] with [[good]] within the existing social order of [[political]] and [[economic]] [[culture]]. [[Religion]] has thus indirectly tended to perpetuate the [[established]] order of [[society]], to foster the [[maintenance]] of the existent type of [[civilization]].
99:0.2 But [[religion]] should not be directly concerned either with the [[creation]] of new [[social]] orders or with the [[preservation]] of old ones. True [[religion]] does [[oppose]] [[violence]] as a [[technique]] of [[social]] [[evolution]], but it does not [[oppose]] the [[intelligent]] [[efforts]] of [[society]] to adapt its usages and [[adjust]] its [[institutions]] to new [[economic]] conditions and cultural requirements.
99:0.3 [[Religion]] did approve the occasional [[social]] [[reforms]] of [[past]] centuries, but in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century twentieth century] it is of [[necessity]] called upon to face [[adjustment]] to extensive and continuing [[social]] reconstruction. Conditions of living alter so rapidly that [[institutional]] [[modifications]] must be greatly [[accelerated]], and [[religion]] must accordingly quicken its [[adaptation]] to this new and ever-changing [[social]] order.
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[[Category: Paper 99 - The Social Problems of Religion]]
