"Act as if ye had faith, and faith will be given to you."
This quote is a very late addition to the Christian religion, and although almost everyone who hears it or reads it assumes that St. Paul wrote it, it was apparently first pronounced by St. Paul Newman in the role of "Frank Galvin" in 1982, and later repeated and popularized by "Leo McGarry" on The West Wing.
This bogus commandment is probably an appropriate motto for those of us who post readers' blogs on political websites, because all the evidence suggests that everything we write is absolutely useless, and we can barely influence each other, much less anybody else...
...but if an imaginary lawyer in an almost forgotten movie can introduce new dogma into Christianity after 2000 years of heresies and Crusades, who can say that even we may not rattle the foundations of such another historical institution, or alter the course of apparently ineluctable historical forces?
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