[Dr. Eckleburg]

This is great -- reading the Institutes step by step.

"I readily acknowledge that designing men have introduced a vast number of fictions into religion, with the view of inspiring the populace with reverence or striking them with terror, and thereby rendering them more obsequious..."

An early conspiracy theorist...and so true.

[RnMomof7]

I think it is a great idea too..if you read then alone you skim,here you think

[Corin Stormhands]

This is great -- reading the Institutes step by step.

You may want to sit down before you read this, but I appreciate this too. I've got so many things on my reading list(s) that I'd probably never get around to reading these on my own.

Doing it this way, with the commentary is very helpful.

Thanks, ksen.

[RnMomof7]

"I readily acknowledge that designing men have introduced a vast number of fictions into religion, with the view of inspiring the populace with reverence or striking them with terror, and thereby rendering them more obsequious..."
An early conspiracy theorist...and so true

Prophetic in many ways..or maybe the devil has simply worked the same in all generations

[fortheDeclaration]

"I readily acknowledge that designing men have introduced a vast number of fictions into religion, with the view of inspiring the populace with reverence or striking them with terror, and thereby rendering them more obsequious..."

Hey! that is exactly how I would describe the development of the Calvinistic system!