From Dr. Dahesh:
Divine revelation is pure only at
the source, that’s why it is essential that we retrace each religion back to its
origin. The further we go in time, the more likely we are to see it muddled.
Christianity (just to take an example I am familiar
with) is the very proof of that degradation; for after the advent of
Christ every century produced its own share of beguilement,
laissez-faire, and concessions, adding them to the original spirit of the
revealed truth, in that to serve our whims and wants. Such a par for the course
tendency not only weakened our belief in the “spiritual,” but it also had a
nefarious effect on our morals and ethics. And this adverse effect gave rise to
a certain doubt in the existence of the soul and her immortality through the
years, a legitimate doubt, nonetheless, which ended up being the Achilles’ heel
of modern-day thinking. Our religion is
what we have become, not what we ought to be!
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