But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
I'd always had a hankering to write some old-school sword and sorcery. And there certainly are advantages to that particular form - for one thing, you're able to go all-out on the imaginative front, with a lot less concern for the usual unities of time and space and character.
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.
And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.