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...protest of Judge Dudley, who founded and outlined the lecture, against sacerdotalism, is based on three main points, the first of which is that the sacerdotal system obscures the broad distinction between the Church and the Kingdom of God. The true view of the question is that people are in the Church because they are already in the Kingdom, not that the Church is a stepping stone whereby the human soul may mount to the Kingdom...
...Kingdom also share in the divine grace as well as those within was his second point, and his last, that the sacerdotal system is irreconcilable with a worthy conception of the divine character. Bacon says on this aspect of the theme: "It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such as is unworthy of Him; for the one is unbelief, the other contumely." Dr. Horr also quoted, in defence of his argument from "The Shipwreck" in the "Colloquies" of Erasmus...
Religion is not coextensive with ecclesiastical institutions, nor with traditions, nor with belief in supernatural beings, nor with faith alone; it does not consist of such philosophical doctrines as the doctrine of God and immortality: religion grows out of the consciousness of a disproportion between our destiny and our powers; it aims at overcoming that disproportion by uniting our inner being with some person more perfect and more powerful. Thus religion implies faith, love of some greater being, endowed, like ourselves, with consciousness and will...
True religion is only the religion of humanity, the effort to contribute to the sum of good already realized by man. This sum of good Comte identifies with a real being, God, and teaches the cult of that grand Being, sublime and eternal...
Like Pascal, Comte starts with a consideration of human nature; Pascal, however, thinks there is in human nature something which surpasses nature proper and directs man towards God; where as Comte considers human nature self-sufficient, and belongs to the category of men who follow the advice of Voltaire; "We ought to cultivate our goodness...