3939. Clara was
a very confused woman, although she did not even have an inkling that she was
confused. Why was she confused? Because she had abandoned her two thousand year
old religion and replaced it with a set of convoluted notions she had received
from the leader of her Bible study group, the American Protestant minister who
had graduated from the Yale Divinity School.
3940. The
minister from the Yale Divinity School, who incidentally had done postgraduate
work at Harvard, was an Iconoclast. I am going to spend some time discussing
this man, and please understand me when I say that I am not doing this to bore
you or to get you to stop reading my story.
3941. I am
doing it because I am very interested in religious concepts, because of my own
peculiar upbringing, but I will not go into that here. I am especially
interested in religious ideas that have gone to seed and become corrupted when
they fall into the hands of disturbed but charismatic personalities, such as
the Minister from Yale.
3942. Disturbed
but charismatic religious personalities can always be recognized by their
propensity to invent their own dogmas, and label their own beliefs with special
titles. They reject all existing creeds, but take from one or another of them, just
as much of the existing materials as suits their purposes.
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