Power corrupts

Is there any end to news of the march of repression, today?

Pope: Other Christians not true churches

These are the days when I appreciate that I am a free thinker. And when I remember that so much of religion, like politics, is about power and the illusion that it is the same thing as doing good. And that is why power corrupts. Because those who have it begin to confuse their having it with being some kind, any kind, of final arbiter of what is good and holy in the world. And that is when all of the ugliness sets in.

Love,
Ben