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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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A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
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For nothing so much disturbs the mind, though it be done for some beneficial purpose, as to innovate and introduce strange things,…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the…
— Pope Leo XIII
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It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as…
— Jeremiah Burroughs
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Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man…
— Gouverneur Morris
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The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.
— Hosea Ballou
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The great biblical tradition says that loving God and loving one's neighbor are not two separate actions but two sides of the…
— John Shelby Spong
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The city Babel is the Ham-like man, who builds this city upon the earth; the tower is his self-chosen god, and divine…
— Jakob Bohme
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