In 1946, Reinhold Niebuhr—a leading public theologian, professor at Union Theological Seminary, and editor of the journal Christianity and Crisis—offered a thoroughgoing critique. What Spiritual Mobilization decried as “pagan statism” included “even the mildest forms of government control. If its standards are accepted, every nation beside our own is already caught in this paganism. Said a British Tory, not a British socialist, visitor to this country who had been given a leaflet of this organization: ‘the uncritical identification of “Christian liberty” with a laissez faire economic program
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