World Council of Churches

World Council of Churches Nobody Goes To Anymore

Bureaucracy

An administrative class that increasingly only knows what it must think rather than how to do so.

Cardinal Baronius

"The Bible was written to show us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go."
- Cardinal Baronius (1598), a quote cited by Galileo

College

Remember Matt Damon's character in "Good Will Hunting" who taunts a Harvard student by saying in 50 years he'll realize he "dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a (bleeping) education you coulda got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library"?

Hannah Arendt

The frigid pity Hannah Arendt thought characteristic of the social state.

Talmud

The Talmud states: "G-d says, 'I created the evil inclination and I created Torah as its antidote.'"

Torah

There are Torah laws that do not express the ideals of Judaism but exist as a way to reach those ideals.