{Christian Doubt}[31st March 1991]

[Redbook9:21][19910331:1706d]{Christian Doubt}[31st March 1991]

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[A cutting in the ms from the Guardian for 199190325:37 in the form of a long open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury designate, Dr. Carey, headed ‘Time to grasp sincere doubts’ and sub-headed ‘Face to Faith: John MacDonald Smith’ (Secretary of Clergy Against Nuclear Arms) includes no highlighted text and is not reproduced in the ts, but includes the following text: ‘Religion is culturally conditioned at its heart: words change their meanings or fall into disuse, but religion will not admit its ad-hoc-ness and relapses to0 often into the positivism which claims that models are the reality rather than merely ways of understanding it.... Even the word “God” is a dispensable symbol, a portmanteau word standing for a wide range of feelings, intuitions, and apprehensions, which, without the models which give it some content, has no meaning’.]

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