Why Such Resistance to Change Larry: OK Miss, can you tell me now exactly why it is that we humans are resistant to the on-going changes in religion that are demanded by Cosmogenesis?
Missy: (She is laughing) Larry, you didn t even want to change the manuscript – to rewrite the expressions of your own ideas! (She is referring to the fact that the Advisors to my religious superior suggested changes in the first writing of the manuscript. When I was invited to change it I wanted to hold on to some of the expressions simply because they were mine and had become sacred to me.) Larry: OK OK Now please tell me more. Missy: The beloved Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel once wrote something to the effect that insights once conceptualized tend to fossilize. And as St. Stephen said to the members of the Sanhedrin (referring to the worship of the golden calf), “They were perfectly happy with something they had made for themselves.” (Acts 7:41) And so, my dear Larry, it frequently happens that much if not all of the energy of human goes into preserving and quibbling over the precise meanings of the expressions of what has been. They like to celebrate what has been. They find such se
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