When evangelicals think about the religious elite, how we've come out of the clutches of empty religious exercise and robes, they develop smug feel for themselves. To the outsider looking in, the new religious conclave with the impermeable traditions, postures, and systems, is in fact the evangelical church.

Here is a quote from a book I am reading, a biography of sorts simply titled Kagawa (Japanese social justice voice.)

It was the religious conclave which killed Christ. Those who thwart and destroy movements which spring from a conscience newly awakened are always the hangers-on of authority and of moneyed might. They are the so-called maintainers of order. They manufacture justice to suit their own advantage and coerce the people in the name of God. And of all concerned, God Himself surelyis the most embarrassed.

Jesus looked beyond the Jewish nation. Truth revolts against hypocrisy. If this be true, Christ was slain on the cross as a son of revolt. Socrates was handed the cup of hemlock on the ground that he was an anti-nationalist.

Those who fail to take man's conscience into account an attempt to bind the truth by authority alone are on the path which leads most speedily to the nation's ruin. Spain's decline began with the religious Inquisition. Before enacting religious regulations make known first of all the God whose abode is in the conscience.

Truth must not fear a revolt against hypocrisy. It is hypocrisy not truth which destroys the nation. One of the chaos caused by truth there always springs a new order for coming generations.