And thus we may be confident that this Word is also more powerful than the danger that threatens it from outside of the church. There, they may not so much want to reject the Word, but rather silence it more effectively by muzzling it like a dancing bear, binding it with a chain and letting it dance its practiced routine. They do not contest it. But they make the gospel into the very thing that Karl Marx criticized: “Religion is the opium of the people.”20 Sometimes demanding, sometimes smiling, they demand that the Word of God should bless and not disturb the arbitrary acts of humans. Its
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