Evangelicals don't even actually read the Bible They're, and I cannot emphasize this enough as a former evangelical, so fucking stupid
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Yeah. But it did largely mean that anyone who *wanted* to could, it just turned out that not many people really wanted to.
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And I mean, I think that it's easy to underrate how much this DID happen, leading to the huge numbers of finely-distinguished sects among Protestantism. And the huge numbers of weirdo-offshoots.
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Instead -- as corrupt and nasty as those old hierarchs could be -- they were completely vindicated in their predictions of what would happen when this was taken to its full extent Every dipshit half-educated local church pastor becomes a tinpot tyrant of his own flock
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Lacking a big institution with a long institutional memory to at least kind of hold individual egos in check, any vaguely talented dude who wanted to "go into ministry" with minimum Int 10/Wis 8/Cha 12 got to be the Pope of his own tiny fiefdom
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They get really mad if you try it
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