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THE SUPPLEMENTARY PAPERS
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RELIGION 4
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2. Belief in authority
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THE SUPPLEMENTARY PAPERS
RELIGION 4
2. Belief in authority
And there is a second step. The second step in belief is belief in authority. They do not say, "Because this person says this and that person says that, therefore I believe it." But they say, "Someone in whom I have trust, that person says it, and therefore I believe it; or, "Some scripture in which I have trust, in that scripture it is written and therefore I believe it." Among these people there has come a division. There are one kind of people who will believe anything that history tells, geography tells, mathematics tells, or any book in the library of the university tells them. But they will not believe anything that tradition tells them, that religion tells them, that the priest tells them, that the Prophet has told. They do not see the reason in one thing and they see the reason in the other thing. This shows that today the authority has changed. The material authority is considered to be something, but a spiritual authority is not recognized by the intelligent.
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