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.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Class-Talk in New York
(December 11, 1895)
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.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Class-Talk in New York
(December 11, 1895)
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