...new prejudices will serve as well as old ones to harness the great unthinking masses.For this enlightenment, however, nothing is required but freedom, and indeed the most harmless among all the things to which this term can properly be applied. It is the freedom to make public use of one's reason at every point. But I hear on all sides, 'Do not argue!' The Officer says: 'Do not argue but drill!' The tax collector: 'Do not argue but pay!' The cleric: 'Do not argue but believe!' Only one prince in the world says, 'Argue as much as you will, and about what you will, but obey!' Everywhere there is restriction on freedom.

~ Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant Cleric Enlightenment Freedom Prejudices Reason Unthinking

Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana Angelic Aphorism Aphorisms Aphorist Aphorists Atheism Atheist Atheists Bad Base Believer Believers Bible Blameless Chaplain Chaplains Church Churches Churchman Churchmen Clergyman Clergymen Cleric Clerics Congregation Congregations Corrupt Criminal Crooked Curate Curates Debased Debauched Decent Degenerate Depraved Dishonest Dishonorable Disreputable Dissolute Ecclesiastic Ecclesiastics Ethical Evil Foul Funny Godless Good High Minded Hilarious Honest Honorable Humor Humorous Humour Image Imam Imams Immoral Impress Impression Impure Iniquitous Irreproachable Joke Jokes Law Abiding Lewd Licentious Loose Lowdown Man Of The Cloth Men Of The Cloth Minister Ministers Miscreant Moral Morally Wrong Nefarious Noble Nonbeliever Nonbelievers Obscene Padre Padres Pagan Parson Parsons Pastor Pastors Persona Perverse Perverted Preacher Preachers Priest Priests Principled Promiscuous Pure Quotations Quotes Rector Rectors Reprobate Reverend Reverends Righteous Saintly Satire Shady Shameless Sinful Sleazy Synagogue Synagogues Unchaste Unconscionable Unethical Unprincipled Unscrupulous Unvirtuous Upright Upstanding Vicar Vicars Vile Villainous Virtuous Wanton Wicked Wish Wrongful

We look wishfully to emergencies, to eventful, revolutionary times...and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Mitch Kynock

Mitch Kynock Cleric Mystery Spirituality