Milton argues that truth becomes "heresy" when people believe things only because their pastors or governments say they are true. According to Milton, why is this dangerous?
Milton argued that believing everything that pastors or governments say was dangerous because you are trusting these people in places of power to make decisions for you. There are corrupt people in every walk of life; so who is to say just because one is a pastor he/she will be honest, or do the make the right decisions for the majority of the people. Governement officials (especially) are not to be trusted to look out for the people's best interests. Milton felt this went back to the Stuart Tyranny, and that they were taking a step backwards in history. We cannot let others think for us or filter the truth. Milton argues that truth can't exist in a world of censorship. It is best we are given all the facts (real facts, not just whatever they feel like telling us) and judge and think for ourselves. It is scary to think that the population of America watches the news and makes decisions based on partial facts that are being filtered to us. And yet we think we are so free. RIGHT...
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