Knowledge is always political, not in its nature or what it is—you can't know by voting or counting votes—but in its effects. Of course, if it concerns something utterly trivial, it will not be political, for who then cares? But otherwise it will tend to determine political and legal powers and processes. From our biblical stories, once again, Joseph (Gen. 41:38–49) and Daniel (Dan. 2:46–49) were lifted from the level of slaves to high positions in government simply because they exhibited important knowledge. The struggle of the Christian movement to emerge from Judaism was a struggle over who had knowledge of God and God's will and intentions. The internal conflicts and developments of particular religions are nearly always a matter of who has knowledge of essential matters.
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