[428] This means the humanistic^a element is lacking in both. This alliance of non-religious and religious positivism characterizes much of our religious education^b and of education^c generally. And here we must come to a solution. Both positivistic forms cannot educate to say No! And since they cannot educate to the PROTEST AGAINST the positive contents which are given, they cannot develop full humanity. It is a mutilated humanity which we find in the faces of all totalitarian followers, if they are convinced followers. We find a mutilated humanity in many RELIGIOUS groups, in whom the possibility of saying No is taken away. This mutilated humanity expresses itself often in fanaticism because these people feel their mutilation and react passionately and violently, if what they don’t have is shown them from outside--then they repress elements in them, wake up, and may destroy their safety repression--which they have done. Now this is the danger in which we are. This danger is not less by the fact that

we are NOT in a totalitarian system and only partly in a Fundamentalistic form of spiritual totalitarianism or authoritarianism. But what I said about the public communications, [they] may be the American way of killing the power of saying No! Now I said introduction into the Protestant^d churches is in itself not the way out because they can go the same way into totalitarianism, or in terms of official authorities, or, which is much more dangerous, it is in terms of conventional attitudes, in suburbia,

which have the power [just like] the strictest papal authorities on the individuals who live there, especially if they live as business executives in the competitive life in which they have to adapt themselves TO the forms of competition, to which religion^e in SOME way, a diminished