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		antifa on May 21, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's the most radical book you've read? > The suggestion that one can have a direct relationship with God tends to annoy those in power Weird because you can have a direct relationship with God is a very popular outspoken opinion among those in power and also something most Americans are taught at a young age, seems strange to call one of the most popular religious opinions "radical".

potta_coffee on May 22, 2024 [–]

History is full of examples, IE the Protestant Reformation, when the Catholic church was insisting that the only way to know God was through a priest, and reformers, who insisted that one could know God without a human authority intervening.

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