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ATTITUDES THAT HINDER OUR PROGRESS

45:17------Anti-religious.
45:19-20---Rejection of inadequate childhood conception and abandonment of God.
45:21------The thought that faith was somewhat weak, even cowardly.
46:1-------Warring individuals, warring theological systems, inexplicable calamity.
46:2-------Judgment of individuals claiming to be godly.
46:3-------How could a supreme being have anything to do with it at all?
46:4-------Incomprehensibility of God.
46:10------Distraction by other's conception of God.
47:3-------Prejudice against spiritual terms.
47:12------Assumption that we must accept many things on faith.
47:17------Obstinacy, sensitiveness, and unreasoning prejudice.
48:1-------Antagonism towards reference to spiritual things.
49:4-------Our perverse streak.
49:7-8-----The vain idea that our intelligence is the beginning and end of all.
49:13------Cynically dissecting spiritual beliefs and practices.
50:1-------Using peoples shortcomings as a basis of wholesale condemnation.
50:2-------We talked of intolerance when we were intolerant ourselves.
50:4-------We never gave the spiritual side of life a fair hearing.
51:12------We are biased and unreasonable about the realm of the spirit.
52:12------We stick to the idea that self-sufficency would solve our problems.
53:18------We lean to heavily on reason for our support.
54:3-------We had been abjectly faithful to the God of Reason.
54:7-------We worship people, sentiment, things, money and ourselves.
55:6-------Obscured by calamity, pomp, by worship of other things.
56:2-------Rebellion at religious education.
56:7-------Ideas that God had never done anything for us.