| Description | Writing from Croydon, Ronald W. Rushworth expresses his religious views which contrasted with the ideas which had Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury had put forward in her broadcast. Rushworth remarks that 'Christ was a man who had certain ideals, but he was not the originator of them; Moses preached the same doctrines before him, as Muhammad did after him.' He also suggests that the idea of a 'future existence' was 'superstition' rather than religion.
Rushworth advocates 'natural religion' based on man's animal instinct, defining Dostoevsky's quotation and the contemporary teachings of the Churches as 'an admission of sheer bigotry & hypocrisy', contradicting 'the great Truths which Modern Science has unearthed'. Referring to issues of gender equality and monogamy, Rushworth suggests that 'the Church's interpretation of Christianity' was 'the basest travesty of real religion one can conceive'. He concludes his letter by arguing that the issue of future reward for doing good and punishment for failing to do so 'completely destroys all merit in being "good".' |