HERE are no doubt many sound ecclesiastical reasons for offering courses in religion in a liberal arts college, but a college should not take these into account in the planning and practice of its curriculum. While educators generally agree that the liberal arts college must be free from the pressures of labor unions, John Birch societies, manufacturers' associations, Daughters of the American Revolution, and Communist and Fascist organizations, they sometimes forget that the college must also be free from the pressures of the churches. Although a liberal arts education is more harmonious with democracy than with dictatorship, and perhaps more harmonious with Christianity than with atheism, the truth is that a college cannot be liberal and at the same time propagandize for either democracy or Christianity. What is taught and how it is taught must be determined by the principles and ends of liberal education itself.