“The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.”
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The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.
Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.
I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.
I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
