Religion: Not Frail, Not Pale

Thanks to parents and Sunday-school teachers, children generally get a distorted, sissified impression of Christ. So says Author Alan Devoe in the current issue of the American Mercury. "When I was a schoolboy," writes Devoe, "I was told that once upon a time there had been a fine and honorable man named Abraham Lincoln ... a good and grave and great man . . . When I saw a picture of Abraham Lincoln I could immediately believe it."

It was the same with Washington, or Daniel Boone, or John James Audubon, or Henry Clay. But in Sunday school, he was told of...

Want the full story?

Subscribe Now

Subscribe
Subscribe

Learn more about the benefits of being a TIME subscriber

If you are already a subscriber sign up — registration is free!