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In my mind, the worst abuses of "church authority" in recent memory have come from the Evangelical Right.
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You might be exactly right.

Men will always be corrupt. Checks and balances - distribution of authority - help keep everyone on course. Those who remove themselves from the dreaded "hierarchy" will always be at high risk to fall.
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Or at risk of falling with that hierarchy.

Sort of puts between the Devil & the deep blue sea, but not there alone if the Holy Spirit is in us, amen?
 
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