DEITY RIDICULED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 16, 16 December 1932, Page 5

DEITY RIDICULED.

TYPHOON EXPECTED TO FOLLOAV NEW SHAW BOOK. “BISHOP OF EVERYWHERE.” Describing himself as the “Bishop of Everywhere,” in his preface to the latest book, “The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God,” Mr G. Bernard Shaw proves, according to the newspapers, a very irreverent bishop. They predict a typhoon when the book attracts the attention of religious people, owing to its offensive sarcasms at the expense of the Deity and the Aposties. Shaw says: “The Bible is scientifically obsolete, but in other respects remains interesting as a record of how the idea of God developed from the childish idolatry of a thundering, earthquaking, famine striking, pestilence launching, blinding, deafening, killing and destructively omipotent bogey man to the braver realisation of a benevolent Sage, just Judge, and affectionate Father, evolving into the incorporeal Word which never becomes flesh.” Of the Apostles, Shaw says: “Sometimes they suggest that there was not a Christian among them. Judas alone showed a gleam of common sense.” The Bible, Mr Shaw contends, is not suited to modern tastes, although more alive than the Parliamentary debates, and better reading than the mendacious fashionable histories. The Ten Commandments ,are characterised as “mere lumber.” They say no word against “thoso forms of robbery l>3alised by thoso robbers who uprooted the foundations of our society, and will condemn us to social decay unless we are awakened, like Russia, by a crashing collapse.”