"The endeavor to compel all men to think alike on all subjects,
culminated in the great apostasy and the development of the great papal system, and thereby the gospel, the one faith that Paul and the other apostles set forth, was lost - buried under the mass of uninspired decrees of popes and councils. The unity of the early church, based upon the simple gospel and bound only by love, gave place to the bondage of the church of Rome...Each new reform movement (like Protestantism) has made the failure of attempting to make a creed just large enough for its prime movers." C.T. Russell --WT, Sep.
1893, p.
1572
The Height of Irony
by Gary1914 2 Replies latest jw friends
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All organized religions are destined to fall into the same trap. Anything organized requires written policies and rules, which cause the fault.
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its very hard to have a group of people who see eye to eye on all things....that tends to cause an unconscious pressure to conform
to some sort of group norm, generally following the lead of the most charasmtic among the group or the understood leadership...
this is what caused the bay of pigs disaster for Kennedy...though many of his inner circle were fully aware that it could be a disaster, the pressure to conform and please the leader made them hold their tongues when they should have said something.
likewise with dictators like Hitler, those around him were pressured more and more to report what the consciously or unconsciously felt would please der furher, not the facts....so gradually all of Hitlers decisions became more and more insane, as if he needed any help (^_^).