INTOLERANCE;
PHARISAISM

In fundamental circles a generation ago we had a hierarchy that was just as powerful and just as tough as the hierarchy that controls the Roman Catholic Church. Of course, they never had been elected; they just appointed themselves. And if you said anything that didn’t jive with the notes of the Scofield Bible you were out on your ear, skidding across to the other curb.

Everybody had to believe exactly the same thing about everything, including the second coming and the antichrist and all the rest. Everybody had to believe exactly what everybody else believed. I grew up in that kind of an atmosphere and I was one of the first ones to rebel against it and fight it.

Matthew 23:23–24; Luke 18:9–14; Romans 14:5

Success and the Christian, 94.

J