Reply #33: respect? Love the church, but dislike the record of this clergyman [View All]

[oscar111]

so much done wrong, so many harmed.

harmed in the extreme.

Let's be honest about a RW person.

Seperate the beauty of the Church and its good elements, from a RW person that worked in it.

Make the effort to seperate pomp and ceremony from the policies being pushed.

When you see great archetecture, great art, hear great music, reflect on the artisans, ... dont lose your critical faculties.

Question all.

Keep that in mind. It shovels away tons of harmful policies that pomp dumps upon us.

Obedience is the opposite of "question all".

Obedience leads to Third Reichs with Adolph at the helm. If the germans had had Rene Descartes attitude {Question all}... then hitler would have lived out his life as a painter of plesant forest scenery. We could have skipped Dachau, skipped the razing of Warsaw, skipped the murder of fifty million.

Question all.

Avoid that thing called "respect".
It is a foundation stone for authoritarianism. "Obedience" is another. Both lead to danger.

Question all