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Live life to it's fullest, love wastefully, and be all we can be.
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When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have…
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The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.
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The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an…
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The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts…
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Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.
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The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The Church must…
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If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is…
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The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows…
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The great danger... in believing yourself especially chosen is that it becomes easy to view those who are not your people as…
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All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being,…
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Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference.
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Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to…
— Isaiah Berlin
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War is the business of barbarians.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.
— Jack Abramoff
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It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Children are gleeful barbarians.
— Joe Morgenstern
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Let those who once fought against brothers and relatives now rightfully fight against barbarians.
— Pope Urban II
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Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.
— Oscar Wilde
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Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and…
— Alexander the Great
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Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so…
— Alexander the Great
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From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the…
— Louis Kronenberger
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People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.
— George Lucas
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Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But…
— Confucius
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