Swords and Plowshares/Faith and Truth
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YOU say "Believe"; I say "Trust."
Between those two words is a great gulf fixed.
The idea that there can be a moral obligation to believe external facts is unworthy of a freeman, but to trust is as much the true nature of man as it is that of a babe to draw in its mother's milk.
You say "Creed"; I say "Faith." A creed at best is but a sorry caricature of a faith.
Faith is the proper atmosphere of man, trust is his native buoyancy, and his only obligation is to follow the highest law of his being.
Between those two words is a great gulf fixed.
The idea that there can be a moral obligation to believe external facts is unworthy of a freeman, but to trust is as much the true nature of man as it is that of a babe to draw in its mother's milk.
You say "Creed"; I say "Faith." A creed at best is but a sorry caricature of a faith.
Faith is the proper atmosphere of man, trust is his native buoyancy, and his only obligation is to follow the highest law of his being.
You have one supreme duty above all creeds and conventions—namely, to think honestly, and say what you think.
Have you doubts about your creed? say so; only thus has the true faith ever advanced.
It is not God, but the devil, who whispers: "Think at your peril!"
Do you see flaws in the ancient structure of respectability and law and order? say so; only thus has the condition of man ever improved.
Have courage to be the heretic and traitor that you are by nature, and do not worry about the consequences.
Be a creator, as you were born to be, and spurn beyond all infamies the wretched rôle of a repeater and apologist.
The world lives and grows by heresy and treason. It dies by conformity to error and loyalty to wrong.
Have you doubts about your creed? say so; only thus has the true faith ever advanced.
It is not God, but the devil, who whispers: "Think at your peril!"
Do you see flaws in the ancient structure of respectability and law and order? say so; only thus has the condition of man ever improved.
Have courage to be the heretic and traitor that you are by nature, and do not worry about the consequences.
Be a creator, as you were born to be, and spurn beyond all infamies the wretched rôle of a repeater and apologist.
The world lives and grows by heresy and treason. It dies by conformity to error and loyalty to wrong.