Berlanda astrólogo on Nostr: In olden times the churches had prestige, but today science has got it. And just as ...

In olden times the churches had prestige, but today science has got it. And just as in olden times people never inquired for themselves — never studied the Bible, and so the priests had a very good opportunity to teach whatever they liked
— so even now the majority of people do not study for themselves and, at the same time, have a tremendous awe and fear before anything called scientific.

You ought to remember that there is a worse popery coming than ever existed in the church — the so-called scientific popery, which has become so successful that it dictates to us with more authority than religious popery.

These popes of modern science are great popes indeed, but sometimes they ask us to believe more wonderful
things than any priest or any religion ever did.

Swami Vivekananda
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