Why is it that we accept authority? In a democratic world, politically we shun any dictator. But religiously they are all dictators. Why do we accept it? Why do we accept the priest as an intermediary to something which he says he knows? So we stop reasoning. Politically we reason; we see how important it is to be free – free speech, everything free, as much as possible – but we never think freedom is necessary here. Spiritually we don’t feel the necessity of freedom, and therefore we accept any Tom, Dick or Harry, which is horrifying.