30 JANUARY 1953, Page 14

Russia and Religion

SIR,—The correct answer to the Soviet criticism of Moral Rearmament quoted by your correspondent surely is that we need the political struggle and Christian repentance and forgiveness. True religion, as C.O.P.E.C. stressed several years ago, should enter into every legitimate human activity, including politics, economics, &c. Had the Russian Churches, prior to the Revolution, realised this important fact and boldly protested against the social and political injustices of their day, and had they avoided a rigid fundamentalism which rejected scientific truths, I doubt if now we should hear so much about Communist hostility to religion.—Yours faithfully, BEDFORD. Crowholt, Woburn, Bletchley, Bucks.