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Philosophy

Sweeney

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2. The Pope is correct in that all ideologies are wrong.

Reply to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Mon Dec 22, 2014, 02:05 PM

Dec 2014

The church is like the government. Both were created with the goal of good as an organization to efficiently achieve that goal. Both think they have a monopoly and resist any attempt to achieve that good outside of the bureaucratic process; but like all organizations, they sap the energy that brought them into being, and the need for good gets forgotten.

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