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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dracomeander" data-source="post: 4388163" data-attributes="member: 20009">Finnian pauses trying to compose his answer to Anniston when Jaroth gives his answer and has his attack. Finnian stays out of the way of the healers while studying the proceedings."I am not sure what just happened, but I believe we have just seen why we cannot take the Book back to the Church."Anniston, you say the Church will handle this case with great seriousness and care. Your faith does you credit, but that is not what will happen. Your superiors are far more likely to react with extreme prejudice and closed mindedness. They will not even take time to listen to our experiences. They are far more likely to either kill or lock us up the moment we mention the Book, and that will leave the Book unprotected in the heart of the land where there are many younger more malleable minds to corrupt."I do not say your superiors are not good men. I have no way of judging that as I have not met them. But our experiences, and the Book particularly, challenge the very way they have seen their faith and the way they have been taught for centuries. That is something most men and no organizations are willing to examine."I fear if we are to survive returning to your superiors then we must find a way to cleanse the Book and ourselves of the taint it carries. That may mean the eventual destruction of the Book. For now we must join our strengths together and fight any influences to try to pass this burden off to others. Only by carrying this burden through to a conclusion will we be able to return with a hope of having the Church listen to us."I know this may seem like a harsh condemnation of the Church, but it is what I have learned of human nature through my travels as a diplomat. My faith is in the Light, but it is not the Light that we must deal with. It is fallible men with all their fears and preconceptions which say to lock away or destroy us that we will have to deal with. I hope you can understand that distinction."</blockquote>

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