Religion: Hate Your Enemies?

Against attempts to whip up hatred of the enemy, the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America has raised a militantly Christian and indignant voice. In spite of such whipcracks as Author Rex Stout's article, "We Shall Hate or We Shall Fail," the Council was glad to report that the country was singularly free from hatred.

Nevertheless, the Council was uneasy, Last week it warned the nation: "If hatred is deliberately fomented and spread until it becomes the emotion that predominant ly determines how the United Nations will act, then the forces of evil will have won their greatest victory....

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