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It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.
It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.
In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is read more
In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.
The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are read more
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. read more
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.
I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.
I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all read more
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
