"No good at all can come from acting before the world and oneself as though we knew the truth when in reality we do not. The truth is too important for that, and it would be a betrayal of the truth if the church were to hide itself behind resolutions and pious so-called Christian principles when it is called to look the truth in the face, once and for all, and confess its guilt and ignorance. Indeed, such resolutions can have nothing complete, nothing clear about them, unless the whole Christian truth, as the church knows it or confesses that it does not know it, stands behind them. Qualified silence might perhaps be more appropriate for the church today than talk which is very much unqualified. That means protest against any form of the church which does not honor the question of truth above all things."
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