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“Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he is there. It is he who listens at the door. It is he who is coming. It is our father who is about...”
“But is the unicorn a falsehood? It's the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Christ and for chastity; it can be captured only by setting a virgin in the forest, so that the animal...”
“Why would you accept the Jesus of the Bible, if you have rejected the Bible of Jesus?”
“I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes, - a justifier of the most appalling barbarity, - a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds,...”
“Like all religious people, Christians repress, remember, and retell their core stories selectively. They emphasize this episode at the expense of that episode, in keeping with their own biases and ...”
“If religion is about the sacred as opposed to the profane, the spirit as opposed to matter, the Creator as opposed to the created, Confucianism plainly does not qualify. But perhaps what we are to ...”
“Was this humanity? Was this nobility? Was this the Christian glory that presumed to hold itself above the heathen Turk? To suffer innocents be sacrificed on an altar of corruption, merely that a lo...”
“Wilhelm Dilthey puts it rather starkly, "Jesus came announcing the Kingdom of God, but what appeared was the church.”
“As long as the postponement lasts he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak and laugh when he ought to be silent.”
“In the years preceding the Civil War in America, Christian ministers wrote nearly half of all defenses of slavery.”
“The truest knowledge is the fear of God.”
“If you meditate on the Holy Scriptures, you mind shall me on the Jesus Christ, the Saviour,”
“Har' icyumba satani atemerewe kujyamo n'umutima wawe kereste wowe umwemereye”
“I don't understand why did jesus give life to the dead when they have to die again?”
“God's saving offer of life and love is available for all; but it cannot be separated from his judgement on evil, and his triumph over it.”
“Consider how textbooks treat Native religions as a unitary whole. ... "These Native Americans ... believed that nature was filled with spirits. Each form of life, such as plants and animals, had a ...”
“God has to punish sinners, because God is holy, but Jesus has paid the price for our sin, and so we can have eternal life. However true or untrue that is technically or theologically, what it can d...”
“In his last years Linacre gave up medicine for the Church and then for the first time read the gospels. On so doing he exclaimed, 'Either this is not the gospel or we are not Christians.”
“Has God created millions of people over tens of thousands of years who are going to spend eternity in anguish? Can God do this, or even allow this, and still claim to be a loving God?Does God punis...”
“Sometimes the reason people have a problem accepting 'the gospel' is that they sense that the God lurking behind Jesus isn't safe, loving, or good. It doesn't make sense, it can't be reconciled, an...”
