{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 166/1916-02-08/p046","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Yet if you think about what has been said here today and often before, and bear in mind its implications, you will avoid certain obvious mistakes. Some mistakes, of course, will be extremely difficult to avoid, and I will point out just one of these today. Again and again individuals among us say, “There are, for instance, the followers of this or that confession,” assuming in this case that we live among a more or less Catholic population “who have their Catholic priest.” Our friends very often believe that if they explain to this priest that we do represent Christianity, speak about the Mystery of Golgotha in the right way, and do not deny the existence of Christ, we will be able to gain the priest's friendship.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture V","site_heading":"The I, Will, and Human Evolution's Spiritual Crisis","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Da glauben unsere Freunde sehr häufig, wenn sie nun diesem Pfarrer klarmachen, daß wir doch den Christus vertreten, daß wir über das Mysterium von Golgatha in einer richtigen Weise sprechen, daß wir den Christus nicht leugnen, so werde die Freundschaft dieses Pfarrers zu erreichen sein. Ganz und gar gefehlt ist dieser Gedankengang. Niemals ist es möglich, dadurch diese Leute zu gewinnen, daß man ihnen zeigt, man leugne das nicht, was sie zu vertreten verpflichtet sind. Ganz unmöglich. Man würde sogar besser mit diesen Leuten auskommen, wenn man in der Lage wäre, zu sagen, man leugne den Christus. Da würden sie sagen: Nun ja, das sind also solche, die den Christus leugnen. Die gehören nicht zu uns. Wir bleiben bei unserer Gemeinde, die sich durch uns den Christus beibringen läßt auf dem Wege des Rausches. - Sie sprechen das nicht aus, aber sie machen es. Aber wenn solche auftreten, die neben ihnen den Christus behaupten, die neben ihnen sogar über den Christus etwas Positives zu wissen behaupten, dann werden diese Menschen eigene Wege geführt, dann werden diese Menschen zu solchen, die auf einem anderen Wege den Christus behaupten wollen als sie, und dann werden sie viel stärkere Feinde, als sie wären, wenn unsere Freunde den Christus leugnen würden. 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