A Pagan Sermon to the Christian Clergy.

WORLD War II; RELIGIOUS fanaticism; INTELLECTUALS; MILITARY personnel; IMAGINATION in religion; POLITICIANS; COLD War, 1945-1991

A World War III, already so total that most of its causes are accepted as "necessity"; most of its meaning as "realism." In this world "necessity" and "realism" have become ways to hide lack of moral imagination. In the cold war of the politicians and journalists, intellectuals and generals, businessmen and preachers, it is above all else moral imagination that is most obviously lacking. The ethos of war is now the ethos of virtually all public thought and sensibility. But the author limits this article to the fact of moral insensibility in the Western world and to the religious failure that supports it.