text: There are many, including those wearing collars and mitres, who have replaced God with men, with an institution.  This is clear from the statements of the institution, and from the comments of many on this board. Obey - that's their mantra and that of those whom they follow.  So why did God bother to give everyone a mind and conscience if we were simply to "obey" men, men who are very often very wrong. They seem to forget also, that Jesus and his disciples were not Roman Catholics.