86:6.7 With the [[emergence]] of these [[concepts]], there was initiated the long and wasteful [[struggle]] to appease the ever-displeased spirits, the slavish [[bondage]] to evolutionary religious [[fear]], that long waste of [[human]] [[effort]] upon tombs, [[temples]], [[sacrifices]], and [[priesthoods]]. It was a terrible and frightful price to pay, but it was [[worth]] all it cost, for man therein achieved a [[natural]] [[consciousness]] of [[relative]] right and wrong; human [[ethics]] was born! | 86:6.7 With the [[emergence]] of these [[concepts]], there was initiated the long and wasteful [[struggle]] to appease the ever-displeased spirits, the slavish [[bondage]] to evolutionary religious [[fear]], that long waste of [[human]] [[effort]] upon tombs, [[temples]], [[sacrifices]], and [[priesthoods]]. It was a terrible and frightful price to pay, but it was [[worth]] all it cost, for man therein achieved a [[natural]] [[consciousness]] of [[relative]] right and wrong; human [[ethics]] was born! |