Divine as the life of Jesus is , what an outrage to represent it as tantamount to the Universe! to seize one accidental good man that happened to exist somewhere at some time and say to the newborn soul, "Behold thy pattern ...go into the harness of that past individual, assume his manners, speak his speech," -this is the madness of Christendom .... I turn my back on these usurpers. The soul always believes in itself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, When People Are Big and God Is Small, p.77-78
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