![]() ![]() They will give credit for the positive changes they see, but will also mercilessly scrutinize your failings. Note to future revolutionary governments: do not allow philosophers to tour your country asking questions and talking to ordinary citizens. The hopes which inspire Communism are, in the main, as admirable as those instilled by the Sermon on the Mount, but they are held as fanatically, and are likely to do as much harm.” ![]() These were the inevitable results, not of the teaching, but of fanatical belief in the teaching. They learned instead to use the Inquisition and the stake, to subject the human intellect to the yoke of an ignorant and intolerant priesthood, to degrade art and extinguish science for a thousand years. Those who followed Christ did not learn to love their enemies or to turn the other cheek. “The principles of the Sermon on the Mount are admirable, but their effect upon average human nature was very different from what was intended. ![]()
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