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Woe to the unlucky man who as a
child is taught even as a portion of his
"creed what his grown reason must
forswear.
J.A. Froude
About three months ago I reviewed a
collection of Ken Ripley's "Soul Food"
columns in this space. At the time I was
responding to what I felt, and feel, is the
basic sincerity of Ripley's approach to
religion. The one significant fault in
"Soul Food," I wrote, was Ripley's
tendency to palter with social issues: to
make sweeping moral generalizations and
then fail to drive home particulars.
("Whether," I reflected,"he ultimately
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will go the way of Billy Graham, or opt
for more active involvement in social
issues, even at the cost of losing some of
his readership, will be an interesting
question to see answered.") But, in truth,
the question of applications is merely
subsidiary to a far more nagging one, but
one which I felt it would be improper to
enter upon in so cursory a review. This is
the fact, as I read "Soul Food,", of
Ripley's fundamentalism.
In the most recent "Soul Food," for
instance, Ripley "challenges" the reader
to make an honest inquiry into
Christianity: that is, into the Bible, which
Ripley regards as the "only authoritative
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Elsewhere, particularly in his discussions
of the Bible's historicity, Ripley strongly
implies that he reads, and means us to
read, the Bible in a literal sense. In other
words, for him-as for Billy Graham and
most of the popular American
preachers-the last three centuries of true
religious inquiry, starting with Spinoza,
may as well never have existed. This kind
of fundamentalism, which I feel whenever
I read "Soul Food," has ramifications far
wider and deeper than I suspect Ripley is
aware of. It would be presumptuous of
me to call Billy Graham, for instance,'
anything less than a dedicated and earnest
man. Considering his profession, woe
betide him if he is; but the same kind of
fundamentalism I see incipient in Ripley
has drained all nutriment from Graham's
particular brand of soul food. It threatens
.to do the same thing to Ken Ripley-td
make his message repetitive and
irrelevant; a truism and this I should not
like to see.
In his March 13 column, Ripley
reports that when he visited the Meher
Baba center, he "was struck by the
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comment of one gH who told me in all
seriousness, "Baba is not like Christianity.
He is for love.' " Ripley, himself in all ,
seriousness, then argues that Christianity,
also is for love, and so an end to the
matter. Well, not quite. For if it were, it
would leave Ripley in the awkward
position of affirming that Baba and
Christianity are merely equally
satisfactory forms of the religion of love
for mankind. Hence, the indirect but
ever-present undertone of assertion that
Christianity, with or without its temporal
advantages, is simply the true faith, and
Baba, a false one. And this conviction, as
I said, is grounded on a fairly literal
interpretation of the Bible.
A hundred years ago, in "God and the
Bible," Matthew Arnold wrote, "The first
Christians misunderstood Jesus and had
the multitude's appetite for miracles, the
multitude's inexact observation and
boundless credulity. They it was who
supplied the data which Christian
theology took from them without
question, and has ever since confidently
built upon . . .data produced and
admitted with a want of intellectual
seriousness." He comments further that
Protestantism "admits unreservedly one
set of miraculous data and builds
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written in a book which, it savs. cannot
err; and this is Isvity." It should be noted
that Arnold was not writing in a vacuum.
Neither was he polemieiring against
religion. He was attempting to formulate
a "new Christianity," and he called "God
and the Bible" an "attempt conservative,
and an attempt religious." It was both.
When Arnold wrote, there had already
been close to two hundred years of
Biblical scholarship. It was known, for
instance, that there were at least four
distinct sources, often inconsistent with
one another, of the Pentateuch; it was
known that in all probability none of the
gospellers ever saw Jesus personally that,
at most, one had; it was known that the
appearance and growth of Christianity
were phenomena completely explicable
with reference to their historical milieu;
and it was understood that primitive
religions were not merely precursors of a
true one, but that all were cognate
growths. Today, through the Dead Sea
Scrolls, we even have knowledge of a
messiah manque, so to speak; a
"Righteous Teacher" nearly
contemporary with Jesus, who was
martyred and confidently proclaimed by
his disciples as the savior, but who, in
simplest terms, never caught on.
And yet, in 1971, we have Ken
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Ripley-whom I know person zuy r.d
respect for his honrsty and
intelligence -trapped in a strident dsfsnse
of Biblical literalism. And all the while he
fails to perceive the essential dichotomy
in his teaching: that if we can hare love
without Christianity, then love cannot be
made an argument for conversion to it;
and that when he relegates sodai
concerns to the vaguest possible language
to avoid offending segments of his
readership, he as much as admits that you
can have the religion without the love.
Hence, too, the increasingly noticeable
repetitiveness of "Soul Food," and my
belief that Ripley must soon face the
decision whether to shuck the old beliefs,
which a scientific and socially aware
generation is finding less and less relevant;
approach his subject from the viewpoint
of psychology, which is - an implicit
elevation of internal over external,
practice over myth; or, like BDy Graham,
embrace the Biblical fable and its
believers wholeheartedly-them and their
pretense of social responsibility.
It is an unenviable position, having to
decide whether to take the world as
science and the best of human reason
have perceived it, or as one has. been
brought up to interpret it, according to
the Good Book. Woe to the unlucky
man . . .
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