In other words they are seekers, unable to live without a religion, unable to live with the one their cultural environment would most readily suggest. He is perplexed by his world, paralyzed with doubt, filled with fear, alienated from a God, grown it seems, silent. Modern man is the product of a world which has moved too quickly for him to assimilate, a lonely creature who wants so much to communicate, to have someone understand him, a rebel without a cause, a lover who finds no one to love.

A large number, however, are in the position so aptly described by Anthony Padovana in his book, The Estranged God: More millions reject Christianity as irrelevant to the human situation, as a religion whose residual traces are no more worth following than the tracks of a rabbit in the undergrowth. Millions of people do not believe God exists.

It is threatened from within by the near collapse of any coherent religious system and the failure to regulate conduct in the light of agreed principles. OL2638811W Page_number_confidence 95.89 Pages 586 Ppi 300 Republisher_date 20200229094821 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 530 Scandate 20200229011229 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog marygrove Scribe3_search_id 31927000286523 Tts_version 3.Today humanity is threatened from without by overpopulation and the possibility of thermonuclear destruction. Urn:lcp:contraceptionhis0000noon:epub:a8e1e28a-1a06-4a5c-9e3e-45da4409cf26 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier contraceptionhis0000noon Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0ps6b75w Invoice 1652 Lccn 65016687 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR) Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Old_pallet IA17107 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 08:01:26 Boxid IA1781118 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Col_number COL-609 Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

Contraception by John T. Noonan Jr.