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Wherever there is persecution within a religion of those who differ from the ruling authority of the period, it usually covers the fact that the persecutors are greater heretics than their victims. For the Founder did not come to preach hatred and cruelty--there is enough of that in the world for God not to need to send someone to increase it--but virtue and goodwill. So the persecutors, even if successfully established and long established, are not preaching his message, but their own, which contradicts it.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 4 : Problems of Organized Religion > # 113