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I read this tonight, and it struck a chord… Quote:The “authorities” will object to your subversion of their life-work, but it is from their minor followers that the bitterest opposition will come. Those who exercise authority are not so shocked by rebellion as their underlings. They are doubly offended, for you threaten their security and insult their judgement. . . . The one Roman Catholic I would expect to sympathize with my doubts on infallibility would be His Holiness. It is the hedge-priest and Sunday School teacher who would cry “Blasphemy!”
What are your thoughts on this observation?
For what it’s worth, I think JS would have endorsed this thought completely. Often it seems that others took his “prophetic mantle” more seriously than he did. Quote:They are doubly offended, for you threaten their security and insult their judgement.
Perfectly stated. If anyone targets you with a religious test, it’s all but guaranteed that one of these two “offenses” stands behind it. And to many members, for me to simply say “I doubt” does both these things at once.
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