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Where doctrine is elevated above life, it inevitably leads by a series of fatal downward steps to guarding itself by persecuting those who hold opposing views. This happened in medieval Catholic history. It happened in early Reformation history, and it happened even in American Presbyterian history.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 4 : Problems of Organized Religion > # 132