Last week the Christian Century, moderately liberal church organ but for the moment wrathful, without ambiguous language set out to examine the exploitation of childhood by religious zealots. Said this crusader :
"Elements in the Christian church to which the community has a right to look for enlightened spiritual guidance are scrambling to exploit childhood in the hope of profits as illicit, of their kind, as any ever wrung by a conscienceless manufacturer from the labor of children at the loom. In the name of evangelism that sacred word that has been defiled so often that it is at last almost...
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