The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception by Michael Baigent & Richard Leigh

Author:Michael Baigent & Richard Leigh [Deception, The Dead Sea Scrolls]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-03-13T18:30:00+00:00

The freedom of the act of faith cannot justify a right to dissent. This freedom does not indicate

freedom with regard to the truth, but signifies the free determination of the person in conformity

with his moral obligations to accept the truth.22

In other words, one is perfectly free to accept the teachings of the Church, but not to question or reject them. Freedom cannot be manifested or expressed except through submission. It is a curious definition of freedom.

Such restrictions are monstrous enough when imposed on Catholics alone - monstrous in the psychological and emotional damage they will cause, the guilt, intolerance and bigotry they will foster, the horizons of knowledge and understanding they will curtail. When confined to a creed, however, they apply only to those who voluntarily submit to them, and the non-Catholic population of the world is free to ignore them. The Dead Sea Scrolls, however, are not articles of faith, but documents of historical and archaeological importance which belong properly not to the Catholic Church, but to humanity as a whole. It is a sobering and profoundly disturbing thought that, if Cardinal Ratzinger has his way, everything we ever learn about the Qumran texts will be subject to the censorship machinery of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - will be, in effect, filtered and edited for us by the Inquisition.

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