Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 13, 1987

Transcript:

Rev. Sloan: Well, here goes nothing...something with majesty, maestro! Man: You got it, Rev! Rev. Sloan: Good morning. In recent times, there's been a growing hunger for hard answers to help us live in a confusing world. For many, this has meant a turn to the rigidity of fundamentalism, whose narrow framework breeds hypocrisy and tolerates only intolerance. At the other extreme, now-doctrinaire new-age spirituality has won adherents with its concept that the individual is both holy and wholly unaccountable! While new age exalts free will, fundamentalism represses it. Neither truly channels it for the common good. All this has left a remarkable opportunity for those of us who believe in mainstream religion! More than ever before, society needs our message of the brotherhood of man! Yes, our time has come! Other man: Good thing.