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Albert Einstein Speaks about the Church in Time Magazine in December 23 1940 on page Pg 38. This could be seen as a lesson for all of us today. We are going down a path in this country where many who have boasted of their devotion to free speech seems to be trying to silence the free speech of others. Seems to be wanting to take away our First Admendment rights to be free to disagree right or wrong. So in the light of history maybe we should take a look at what he had to say about his own experience with that. Albert Einstein. Being a lover of freedom, when the revolution came in Germany, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but, no, the universities immediately were silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks. . . .
"Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly."
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