Peg writes:
What would you rather, learn about God from someone who paid for their degree, or from someone who God gave his spirit to?
That would, of course, depend upon who is the judge of "someone who God gave his spirit to."
I f you are the final judge of everyone's interpretation according to your own dogma, are you not the final judge yourself?
Where there is no room for doubt, there is no room for learning.
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
Salman Rushdie
This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us. - the character Rorschach in Watchmen
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