Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1029

Random taping (?) by Spencer MacCallum from conversation with Heath about Reinhold Neihbur.

December 2, 1956

/Reinhold Neihbur is/ perhaps the most unspiritual influence in America today.

… the idea that this hectic pursuit of material things has not contributed to the spiritual life. It’s the old doctrine of original sin, that man must suffer for his depravity, and that the abundance of material things is unspiritual because it emancipates him from suffering and punishment. As though he should pay a price of suffering to hell for the bounty of God.