Every responsible human being ought to feel the weight of history on their shoulders. What occupies such consciences is the awareness of the urgency of not being an obstacle in anyone’s path. Scandal to any man, woman or child is to be avoided. This means that what such consciences hand down to progeny is the truth and nothing but the truth. And with each day, which emerges, there is a fresh opportunity to examine the truth again and again to make assurances doubly sure that the truth one has spoken stands. This is especially true when we are imparting religious truth. Religious truth also touches on our social and political lives. Because there are many opinions on religious truth, there is only one way to test the truth of these opinions, and it is a simple, uncomplicated test. It is this: What is its practical effect or result, for the soul? Does a religious statement, or story or command inspire me to love my neighbour as I love myself in every sense of the word, love, as Paul the Apostle puts it in (2 Corinthians 13: 1-13). Every doctrine of the Church is trying to say the same thing except for those times when the zeal of some interpreters lose that love of self and neighbour in translation. There are, of course, stories and statements, which have been designed to appeal to our human psychology; that is, such stories or statements are there to strengthen people’s faith by appealing to what humans desire to see or believe or feel. The problem with these latter truths is that what makes one person feel good is not what makes another feel good.