(August 18, 2021 at 12:46 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ‘Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.’ Ralph Waldo Emerson
BTW, great quote, by a leading theologian, philosopher and abolitionist activist from the 1800s. He was Unitarian - and still considered an important part of my UU church's roots (though the UU is no longer Christian).
Emerson believed in something called "The Oversoul" - an idea that we are all mystically connected, and this connection is his concept of God. Complete nonsense, but far more progressive than the Christianity of his time.