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...exposed for little more than a decade and to whom western ways are still highly adventurous. Even in Thai cities, the old and new live in exuberant competition. Bangkok's harbor is busy with superb modern port construction; but workers and engineers engaged on it prostrate themselves before Buddha. Conductors of streetcars are likely suddenly to stop their cars and relieve themselves behind the nearest hedge. Little boys of the ultramodern, totalitarian youth movement, Yuvachon, are forced to wear shoes to drill, but on the way home happily carry them in their hands...
...your review of my book, Living Religions and a World Faith (TIME, Sept. 2), the reviewer concludes with a quoted sentence which he says is my idea of "the world faith of the future." The sentence is this: "God is in his world, but Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed are in their little private closets, and we shall thank them, but never return to them...
...showing why this spirit is mistaken. It is the whole point of the book to show "the dilemma of religion"-that we cannot get to a world faith by the easy and usual philosophical path (proposed by Dewey and others) of eliminating the particular and historical characteristics symbolized by Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed...
...potter setting out his wares for sale he was amazed at the display, not of porcelain but of nerves. That afternoon the bombers returned, gutted the business district, including many foreign offices. The big Changanszu (General's Temple) was cut to the ground except for a statue of Buddha sitting on his fat haunches and smiling among the cracked bricks...
...West have conceived, simply because it can recover there so many lost fragments of what is its own." The fusion of spiritual beliefs which he envisages for the world faith of the future will be God-centred rather than Christ-centred: "God is in His world, but Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed are in their little private closets, and we shall thank them, but never return to them...