[MannoFr]

I try to keep as far from organized religious orders as possible. Inertia and/or reluctance to being a loud iconoclast meant I once found myself in the presence of religious head of the order my family associates itself with.

I had also read articles by him and was impressed by his scholarship. In the magazine internal to the religious order,
he had written a series of essays concerned largely about Indian philosophy. He had fluently (even accessibly) written about comparative religious philosophies and extended impressive arguments the universal "oneness" and all that.

But when a couple of relatives of ours met him in person He advised them on the importance of not paying obseisances to the "wrong" Gods. Since then I have heard from reliable sources of other discriminatory practices.These kind of things make you lose faith on age, scholarship and what not.

This is for me. Imagine someone who believed he was the one who had all answers, was infalliable etc. Such a person may have been shattered.