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Zeigler, Mary Roe, May 2, 1947.
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"FANEWOOD" NEW WINDSOR-ON-HUDSON P. O. NEWBURGH, N. Y. May 2nd, 1947
Dear Professor Einstein;-
We have received the circular letter under your signature and enclose our small con-tribution. We are working hard here to establish a chapter of United World Federalists, which you may know as the strongest association so far (at least [to/in?] my knowledge) leading toward a world government.
People are gradually beginning to realize that the future lies more in the hearts of men than in their heads; that they must first persistently desire peace, and wage the moral fight to achieve it; that in that way only can atomic energy be harnessed for the good of mankind rather than its destruction.
Toward this end, to my mind, one of the necessary de-velopments in the realm of morals is the founding of a universal religion - the religion of the Power that made us, and all that it implies of strength and comfort and the reason-for-being of the human soul. Such a religion would embrace all the peoples of the earth who are not already satisfied with the religions that have been handed down to them.
The vast army of the unchurched ought to be organized for the great good it could do as an organization, and not as scattered individuals, as at present. The great-est minds are not "orthodox" minds. The answer may be the Unitarian Church, but there I find a lack of spiritual anchorage; they have no definite objective belief as a rallying point, in the absence of a creed. To my mind, God, and God alone, can be such a rallying point, for indeed without a conviction of the strength and surety of the Power that made the universe standing back of all life, now and forever, I for one would find life on this planet a difficult proposition to follow through. All religions are based upon this concept anyway, but they have sought out many inventions.
Do you agree with me, or do you think that those who have left the church do not need a religion? I am thinking more of young people everywhere when I advo-cate the establishment of a "Church of the Creator," which it might be called. As you know, there is already a sect called the Church of God, which woukd be the logical name for a church devoted to the worship of God and all that that implies of servic, etc. Young