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re: Catholic priest vs. others and credibility, this SMBC comic is appropriate: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20110503.gif http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic
by cr0sh 10y ago
re: Catholic priest vs. others and credibility, this SMBC comic is appropriate:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20110503.gif http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20110503.gif
In other words, it's one thing when someone is claiming to speak on behalf of a deity; it's another otherwise. To be hypocritical in such a context reflects much more harshly on the priest than it does on, say, the civil rights activist.
- fusiongyro 10y agoTrue, but that only makes the argument weaker for Krishnamurti, who really refused the role of teacher quite strongly himself and certainly didn't want anyone believing in a supernatural savior instead.