Church Hierarchy

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“It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

“In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”
—Laurence J. Peter (1919–1990)