A Thesis on Conversation

[Himmel 26]

Conversation

[A depiction of youths ignoring a priest, only to have a bridge collapse under them]

[Himmel, Circa 1534]

Many centures have passed, and the interregnums of the core of Orenian principle, it's faith, has shifted in structure and dogma more times than even my studied eyes have perceived. Yet the progenitor of the failures of the Church have not been a lack of change, or change itself. It has instead been the inability or unwillingness of those within the upper echelons of clerical structure to compromise, to listen, to reform and to progress.

The nature of GOD is unknown to mortal man, but through the Holy Scrolls which teach us of His infinite knowledge, power, and goodness. Even so, leaders of the faith have historically cast aside the humility by which we all are bound, and presumed to know the will of GOD in a way we know is impossible. John of Darfey, Lucien III, Daniel III, and many others have crafted versions of the Church which either best suited them, or most aligned with their presumptuous ideas of GOD's nature. Even Daniel I, as Siguine Barrow, aligned himself with political powers in order to purposefully impose caesaropapism, as a method by which to tear the Church from the hands of the corrupt Darfey.

Perhaps these men meant well, perhaps they even did well, but the issue remains that even in the relative growth and docile years since the abdication and antics of Daniel the Blind, the Church has failed in its duty to bring to the forefront of Orenian ideals the faith by which Orenian culture originates.

Internal conflict thrives within the Church; Bishops are often politicians whose special interests interrupt with their duties, and stall progress. But progress is a necessity, and even as the Church is founded on tradition, to blindly adhere to tradition where the Scrolls speak not of it is to surrender to stagnation; like an old man who writes with coal when his son offers him a quill.

We must speak with each other, we blessed and Ordained by GOD. We must understand our alliance, for our goal is one in the same. We must cease persecution of those who would seek to raise questions which may challenge those ideals which stagnate us, and even those which may not. The Holy Scrolls tell us what GOD asks of us, and commands us to abstain from. They do not tell us that there is one way or another to worship Him, but that He must be worshiped by nature of his limitlessness.

History has shown many times that the nature of the Church is to reform, or grow weak. History has shown that the Church is damaged severely by internal conflict created by dogmatic or traditional disagreements.

And so, I ask this;

I urge you, Your Holiness, Everard III, to not bar we scholars of the faith from progressive thought and the generation of ideas which may contradict traditions of the past, for any true scholar of the faith would not betray GOD in their inquiry of tradition. We must contemplate to understand, and agree to disagree; but we must also follow the commands of the most holy Vicar of GOD, for it is by your will that GOD's flock is brought to His light.