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It should not be avoided as a topic; it should on the contrary be striven for and worked up to as often as time and place permit. It is said that people are yearning for more religious knowledge and certitude. If they are true to their spiritual nature, they certainly are. To deny them that search in conversation is to drive them to bridge and golf, good things but not as good as throwing ideas about in conversation. However, the more important a topic is the more wisely and ably ought it to be managed. Sir Thomas Browne in his Religio Medici wrote something to the effect that virtually only religion and morality are worth arguing about but that one has no business doing it if one cannot do it well. He wrote, |
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