Rev. Charles Francis Potter

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  Charles Francis Potter
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  Charles Francis Potter CHARLES FRANCIS POTTER: "the New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures ... the anonymous translators have certainly rendered the best manuscript texts ... with scholarly ability and acumen."
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  In the Preface to his book, Potter writes the following:
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  An interesting biography of Potter may be found here.The following remarks are excerpted from this source:
  
  He earned a B.D. in 1913 and an S.T.M. in 1917 from Newton Theological Seminary as well as an M.A. from Bucknell in 1916.
  
  Reflecting the continual development of his personal religious thought away from orthodoxy toward more liberalism, Potter founded the First Humanist Society of New York in 1929.
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  In founding the Humanist Society, Potter left the Unitarian ministry behind and declared that the Society would have no creed, clergy, baptisms or prayers."I had given up my fast dwindling belief in the deity of Jesus and the doctrine of the Trinity," he wrote."Now, fifteen years later, I was leaving not only Christianity-if Unitarianism is Christianity-but Theism as well."
  
  With his Humanist philosophy serving as a platform, Potter now became a vocal advocate for social reform, campaigning vigorously against capital punishment, promoting "civil divorce laws," and supporting birth control and women's rights.In 1938 Potter formed the Euthanasia Society of America, which eventually boasted a membership of 40,000 and raised the issue of euthanasia before the American public.
  
  In 1958, soon after the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Potter published perhaps his most popular book, The Lost Years of Jesus Revealed, an interpretation of the scrolls' contents and their contribution to the understanding of Jesus as a historical figure.

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  Charles Francis Potter not only founded the Euthanasia Society of America in January 1938, but he also founded the first Humanist Society of New York in 1929.
  
  Potter viewed people with disabilities as needing to be "mercifully executed by [the] lethal chamber."He also stated that: "It is simply social cowardice that keeps [imbeciles and idiot infants and ‘monsters'] alive,".Potter recommended safeguards, including legal and medical permission and a waiting period.Yet there was no mistaking his opinion that euthanasia was a tax-saving, utilitarian, and biologically necessary public policy. (page 44)
  
  But it doesn't stop there.In 1976 Rockefeller met with officials from both the Concern for Dying (CFD) and the Society for the Right to Die.He expressed particular interest in "active euthanasia" for the terminally ill and severely disabled infants. (page 133).

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  In 1938 Charles F. Potter, calling himself Reverend Potter, founded the Euthanasia Society of America.

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  * 1929 * First Humanist Society of New York, now defunct * Julian Huxley and Albert Einstein on society advisory board * founded by Charles Francis Potter, signer of Manifesto * Former minister of the West Side Unitarian Church in New York City * biblical expert for defense in Scopes "Monkey" Trial
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  * 1930 * Potter publishes "Humanism: A New Religion" * 1933 * Potter publishes "Humanizing Religion"

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  Merton embraced a concept of humanity and wholeness that is mirrored in the religious humanism of Rev. Charles Frances Potter, a Unitarian and founder for the First Humanist Society of New York in 1929.
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  Potter's affirmed prayer and worship as an essential human experiences that promoted personal and social improvement.He considered prayer psychological rather than theological, humanistic rather than theistic; no longer a petition to a deity, but a meditative exploration of oneself.He believed prayer, meditation, and quiet thought to be practices, which engaged us in a process of reflection and quest for high resolve.Prayer, according to Potter, is access to personal power and provides the personal and social aesthetic framework for positive, Tran formative community.
  
  Both Merton and Potter asserted prayer and meditation as a pathway to discovery and true community.

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  Charles Francis Potter not only founded the Euthanasia Society of America in January 1938, but he also founded the first Humanist Society of New York in 1929.
  
  Potter viewed people with disabilities as needing to be "mercifully executed by [the] lethal chamber."He also stated that: "It is simply social cowardice that keeps [imbeciles and idiot infants and ,monsters'] alive,".Potter recommended safeguards, including legal and medical permission and a waiting period.Yet there was no mistaking his opinion that euthanasia was a tax-saving, utilitarian, and biologically necessary public policy. (page 44)
  
  But it doesn't stop there.In 1976 Rockefeller met with officials from both the Concern for Dying (CFD) and the Society for the Right to Die.He expressed particular interest in "active euthanasia" for the terminally ill and severely disabled infants. (page 133).

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  In Dec 1923, Dr Charles F. Potter (a Unitarian minister) and Dr. John R. Straton (a fundamentalist Baptist minister) held a debate on this very issue (is the Bible infallible?) at Dr. Straton's home church, Calvary Baptist Church in New York City before an audience of over 2500 people which was also broadcast live over radio.
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  Dr Potter began his part of the the debate by arguing that there are three types of errors in the Bible:
  
  1. Scientific and historical inaccuracies (factual errors)2. Obvious contradictions between various accounts (description errors)3. Moral inconsistencies describing God's behaviour or instructions (moral errors)
  
  The judges reached a verdict 2-1 in favour of Dr. Potter's arguments that the Bible is NOT infallible and that there are many examples of errors in all three categories.
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  The overwhelming consensus of both the live and the radio audience was that Dr. Potter had won the debate.And the debate has raged the ever since, not just between believers and non-believers but within the Christian community itself.

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  PASTOR CHARLES POTTER

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  Charles F. Potter said that American schools are a powerful tool for humanism.
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  Chuck and Donna McIlhenny are pastors in San Francisco.

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  REV. CHARLES POTTER, Minister, West Side Unitarian church, New York.
  
  RABBI JEROME MARK, Temple Beth-El, Knoxville, Tenn.
  
  REV. FRED W. HAGAN, First Congregational church, Huntington, W. Va.
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  The Court— I see by the press one minister has resigned his post recently because Dr. Potter was not allowed to preach in his church and I take it he is in sympathy with Dr. Potter and his doctrine, the others are perhaps fundamentalists, I don't know.

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