The Christian churches were offered TWO things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they REJECTED the HIGHER inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the GOODNESS of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.

The Orthodox hierarchy doesn't have the KIND of power that high-ranking clergy do in other CHURCHES. There isn't EVEN a worldwide governing board to hold all the various Orthodox bodies TOGETHER.

If ORGANIZED religion has BECOME LESS RELEVANT, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal BELIEFS - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.

Historically SPEAKING, INSTITUTIONS are SLOW to change and usually RESISTANT to any sudden moves - CHURCHES especially so.

The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ANCIENT COUNTRY CHURCHES as their MODELS and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and MARKED difference.

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he MAY be, FEELS the transcendent BEAUTY and poetry of the mediaeval CHURCHES.

I THINK that the CHURCHES do a better job in MANY respects than the government does in various kinds of THINGS. Extending aid, the helpfulness, and so on, yes.

It's not just that GOVERNMENT has FAILED us. It's not just that we have failed ourselves. It's government. It's individuals. It's sort of EVERYTHING in between, from FAMILIES and communities and neighborhoods, churches and so forth.

Would a President Hillary Clinton and her LIBERAL allies suspend the tax-exempt STATUS of churches deemed 'not friendly' to her administration? It is within the realm of possibility CONSIDERING their HATEFUL beliefs.

Political ORGANIZATIONS have SLOWLY substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for BELIEVING practices. Politics has once again become religious.

A presidential candidate changing churches is HARDLY unusual. Jeb BUSH, Scott Walker, and Rand PAUL have all aligned themselves with different faiths throughout their lives.

I love VISITING churches and I THINK I've VISITED EVERY MOSQUE in Istanbul.

A person can't just DRIVE AROUND the NORTH Slope, visit the locals, stop in at a BURGER joint. There are no locals, no burger joints, no houses, no cities, no CHURCHES.