# Off-Topic Thread vol. 2 **URL:** \ **Category:** Intergalactic Summit\ **Created:** [July 4, 2019, 2:24pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/off-topic-thread-vol-2/171718 "2019-07-04T14:24:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 746
**Author:** ![Arrendis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/arrendis/32/432594_2.png) [@Arrendis](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Arrendis)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/off-topic-thread-vol-2/171718/746 "2019-10-03T19:05:59Z")
> [@\[CAVTT\] The Test of Faith](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/cavtt-the-test-of-faith/193415/28): > > If you have any faith in God you’d trust His guidance of the faithful, especially the throne, heirs and holders to keep scripture pure. > > While man may fall into corruption it is the combination of faith, the Theology Council and the Empress that safeguards our sacred texts. Now that’s just plain _silly_. I’m sure even the Empire knows the saying ‘a chain is only as strong as its weakest link’. The more people you introduce to the process, the more _human beings_ you have involved, the more the chance of corruption _increases_. After all, one corrupt actor whom others trust can poison the work output of the whole group, just by introducing a few small errors here and there. And that’s without getting into ‘the work’ being a body of text as incomprehensibly large as the Amarr Scriptures. Say what you like about how I’m an unbeliever and an outsider, most of the Amarr here know that one thing I do almost _compulsively_ is ask questions about their faith, and the Scriptures that form its foundation. Some may even recall a discussion where I was told, by a number of the more learned Amarr, that the complete body of Scripture is _so_ vast, nobody can know it all. Nobody has _time_ to read it all. It would take longer than the centuries-long lifetime of an Amarr Holder. And if nobody can know it all, then nobody can fact check every single claim and assertion being quietly made in an off-hand manner as a terribly minor, insignificant really, point during a discussion. And then that minor, insignificant point enters into what people are aware of, and can be reminded about. And it’s accepted as ‘yes, I recall that being discussed’, and soon other things are being considered on the _basis_ of that formerly-insignificant point. And it snowballs from there. The larger the group, the larger the _work_, the _ **more** _ potential there is for corruption. And the only prevention for it is constant, _individual_ vigilance on the part of everyone impacted by it. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/off-topic-thread-vol-2/171718)._