Dogma Quotes
One of the reasons that this quotation is so significant is that the Roman Catholic Church had been historically antithetical to science and scientists. It took hundreds of years before the church would admit that Galileo was right and the church wrong about the earth revolving around the sun. But Pope John Paul II, along with his other major accomplishments removed the traditional Catholic hostility in theology and tradition. He even acknowledged the validity of the Theory of Evolution and taught that there was nothing inherent in evolution that denied God or scripture.
Will is criticizing the Identity Politics movement.
For the majority of the time of Christian History, it has been Catholic Christian History. Protestantism did not begin until the 16th Century.
If someone repeats a lie, you can show them the logic and facts of the situation and persuade them often. But if they are ideologically wedded to an idea, it is difficult if not impossible to change their mind, as their belief is an ideology, not a conclusion.
Original French: “Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent.”
He was the judge who presided over the breakup of AT&T in 1984
