STORY : New Ideas by William Barclay

Story title : New Ideas
By: William Barclay


    Normally nothing moves more slowly than a church. Religious people have a passion for the old.
    Some of today's most useful discoveries were made by men who dared to be and think different, and suffered for it. The man with something new always has to fight.
    The church branded Galileo a heretic when he taught that the earth moved round the sun.
  Lister had to fight the old line doctors to prove his antiseptic technique, which is standard today in all operations.
    The idea that "something always has been done this way" stifles all attempts to improve. And just because something has " never been done this way " may very well be the best reason for trying it.
    As motherly Pope John twenty third put it, "The truth of Christianity do not change, but how we explain them does change."