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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ
My view of the Church hasn't changed much. I still think it's a flawed institution that God works through and that does much good. As Hugh B. Brown said:
"We should be dauntless in our pursuit of truth and resist all demands for unthinking conformity. No one would have us become mere tape recorders of other people's thoughts. We should be modest and teachable and seek to know the truth by study and faith. There have been times when progress was halted by thought control. Tolerance and truth demand that all be heard and that competing ideas be tested against each other so that the best, which may not always be our own, can prevail. Knowledge is most complete and dependable when all points of view are heard."
In the same talk, Brother Brown also said: "We must preserve freedom of the mind in the Church and resist all efforts to supress it."
And also: "There are altogether too many people in the world who are willing to accept as true whatever is printed in a book or delivered from a pulpit. Their faith never goes below the surface soil of authority."
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Excellent quotes.
We have not had one since Hugh B. Brown willing to speak against conformity.