The Prevalence of Terror: The Reverse of Reverence for Life

Fritchman, Rev. Stephen H. [Hole]

Published by First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 1953

About this Item

Please note: this sermon is *not* reprinted in the Rev. Fritchman's posthumous collection of sermons and addresses entitled "For the Sake of Clarity." Offered is a first edition, first printing, of "The Prevalence of Terror: The Reverse of Reverence for Life," the text of a sermon given on February 22, 1953 at The First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles and published in print form by that Church. A left-stapled pamphlet measuring 6-1/8" by 9-3/8" and containing 12 pages including front and rear covers. Here are a few excerpts: "The pilots of our bombers drop death and ruin on villages far away; they see only a brilliant orange and black mushroom far below, but mothers and children, soldiers and farmers are slain, mutilated, burned with incurable napalm sores. War is the terror that reaches around the globe in a network of diabolical efficiency. The terror is organized, commercialized, rated on the stock exchange, recorded by ingenious business machines" - "The refusal of men to do all possible to use negotiation and the tools of honest compromise of issues is a voluntary continuation of this terror over body and soul in war. Surely we who profess religious values, who believe in reverence for life, can and should do far more than we are doing to insist that the terroristic methods of atomic bombs, liquid fire, and all other devices of annihilation be replaced by the sanities of men who have discovered thought, reason, bargaining and concessions. Terror multiplies terror and violence corrupts the powers of men to be human." Outer covers sunned; a few light corner creases; light wear. The REVEREND STEPHEN H. [HOLE] FRITCHMAN (1902-1981), author, liberal humanist, and social and antiwar activist, was the minister of the progressive First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, California, from 1948 to 1969.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Prevalence of Terror: The Reverse of Reverence for Life
• Publisher: First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
• Publication Date: 1953
• Language: English
• Binding: Stapled Wraps
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Radical and Progressive
  • Religion: Christianity
  • Philosophy and Sociology