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Helnl Radio News Service
8/7/46
FCC'S Definition Of God.
(George E. Sokolsky, ’’Washington Time s-He raid”)
Whenever a totalitarian form of government is established, authority is projected over the mind and soirit of man. The govern¬ ment determines what may be thought and believed.
The FCC has for some years, without the benefit of an Act of Congress, set itself up as a government agency of censorship over the radio. It seeks to determine what shall and shall not be spoken over the radio in spite of the fact that the law establishing it for¬ bids precisely that. For instance, it has sought to establish by obiter dicta that radio networks and radio stations may not have an editorial policy. Now it caps the climax of its absurdities by defining God as an official act of the government of the United States.
This is the formal and official FCC definition of God:
"God is variously thought of as a 'Spirit, infinite, eter¬ nal, and unchangeable', and as having a tangible form resembling man who, in turn, was created in his image; as consisting of a Trinity and a single Godhead; as a Divine lawgiver, laying down infallible natural and moral laws by which man is governed, and as a God who concerns himself with the personal affairs of individuals, however petty; as a God to whom each person is individually accountable and as a God to be approached only through ordained intermediaries; a God of the powerful who divinely appoints kings and other rulers of men, and as a God of the meek and lowly; as a God of stern Justice and a God of mercy; as a God to be worshipped or appeased primarily through ritual and as a God to be served primarily through service to one's fellow man; as a God wnose rewards and punisnments are main¬ ly reserved for a future life and as a God wno also rewards or punisnes through spiritual enrichment or impoverishment of man's pres¬ ent existence. These are only a few of the many differing concep¬ tions which might be cited by way of illustration. "
Now the reason that the Commissioners of the FCC felt call¬ ed upon to define God was that an atheist, one Robert Harold Scot^-, of Palo Alto, Calif, , demanded time on the air in advocacy of athe¬ ism. He was turned down by Station KFRC, and by the National Broad¬ casting Company, which stated that "it is difficult to imagine that a controversial public issue exists in the usual sense of that phrase, on the subject of the existence of a God merely because of the non-belief of a relatively few. "
So the Commission felt called upon to enter uoon a lengthy judgment granting an atheist the right, in terms of the First Amend¬ ment of the Constitution, to propagate atheism. The assumption of the Commissioners is that "Freedom of religious belief necessaridy carries with it freedom to disbelieve ..."
If the Commission's logic is correct, then freedom to participate in government is also freedom to overthrow government.
For our government is based upon a philosophy of the relationship of man to God, as it is stated in the Declaration of Independence,". . .
that all men are . . . endowed by their Creator with certain un¬ alienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ..."
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