Moreover, there is a vast difference, I discovered, between what we believed and did as leaders and teachers, and what the students would do with what we taught them. This is why I don’t fear conservative leaders in the world today, but I’m frightened to death by their followers. We broke the law. We stretched the truth. Why would we be surprised or complain if our followers did likewise? Our attempts to manage a political movement trapped us in the belief that God needed us and our work in order to accomplish change in the hearts of humankind. We organized human efforts to change, and that is
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