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This reminds me of Pope John Paul II's reply when asked why the church was not more democratic: The church is not a democracy and truth is not established by a
by ekm2 13y ago
This reminds me of Pope John Paul II's reply when asked why the church was not more democratic:
The church is not a democracy and truth is not established by a show of hands
- jongraehl 13y agoIt's more plausible, not less, that divine inspiration is reflected in the vote of a group than in a single man's decision. Like a multiple sensor array, the noise in a single instrument (and the risk of its corruption) can't cause the whole to fail to detect the signal.