Luke Ford Quotes

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• Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon…
• Everything we do affects other people.
• The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.
• I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed…
• I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.
• Whether you do a play in front of 100 people or a movie that one billion people see, you're still affecting people.
• I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.
• I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.
• I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.
• I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.
• I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people…
• My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.
• At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.
• Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.
• In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.
• At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.
• I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including…
• I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.
• Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what…
• One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing.

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