• Slaves? Many brethren view with disdain and criticize with contempt the Roman Catholic teaching and practice of forced acceptance of the Scripture interpretation of the church. They congratulate themselves upon the fact that, as NT Christians, they may "interpret" the Scriptures for themselves. They glory in their freedom and repudiate the slavery of the papal system with its "infallible church." Yet, by accepting without study the conclusions of prominent preachers, papers, and schools, allowing them to do their thinking, they involve themselves in the same state of slavery characteristic of the Roman Catholic Heirarchy. Lynazio Silone is quoted in the July issue of Nuggets as saying in "Bread and Wine": "He who struggles for what he believes to be right is a free man. Even if you live in the freest country in the world and you are lazy, callous, apathetic, irresolute, you are not free but a slave..." This is quite as true in religion as in politics. -- Sentinel of Truth

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