Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 11, No. 4. April 7th, 1948
Un-American
Un-American
It is our great privilege to be unAmerican because to be American is to betray Christianity. In the concrete, in actual fact, to be American is to believe in capitalism, imperialism, militarism, nationalism, and mediocrity. It is the antithesis of being Christian. It is devotion to the world, to success, to material values, to national and personal pride and greed. It is to contain within oneself and within the nation the seeds of Fascist and Marxist materialism which, regarding man as less than a person, subordinates him to the centralized state. The alternative today is that of Christian anarchism.