Tradition and my church have an odd relationship. My church vocally and vociferously decries religious tradition as the dirty fingerprint that sinful man leaves upon the pure and undefield religion of God. If only men had sense enough to neither add or subtract from what has been revealed they’d all find that harmful innovations (and yes, the implication is that all innovations are harmful) would largely disappear. So my church says.
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