id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4082 Reinhold Niebuhr - Wikipedia .html text/html 11258 1700 68 Starting as a minister with working-class sympathies in the 1920s and sharing with many other ministers a commitment to pacifism and socialism, his thinking evolved during the 1930s to neo-orthodox realist theology as he developed the philosophical perspective known as Christian realism.[31][verification needed] He attacked utopianism as ineffectual for dealing with reality, writing in The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness (1944), "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary." Niebuhr's realism deepened after 1945 and led him to support American efforts to confront Soviet communism around the world. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4082.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4082.txt