(November 21, 2019 at 8:49 am)Belacqua Wrote:(November 21, 2019 at 8:44 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 'When a government - either secular or religious - tells you, "This you may not see, this you may not hear, this you are forbidden to know", the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how noble the motives.' - Robert A. Heinlein
Boru
Are you talking about governments?
I was talking about spiritual teachers, who know that not everybody is right for certain messages. Would you be willing to devote a lot of your time to teaching Donald Trump about the Nicomachean Ethics? I wouldn't.
Yes, I'm talking about governments. For a very, very long time, in a large number of cultures, there was no discernable difference between the established church and the government. The priest class and the ruling class were effectively the same thing.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
