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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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All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and…
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Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at…
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The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.
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Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science…
— Gustave Meyrink
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I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus,…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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A quiet impression could be a personal instruction from the Lord. It is personal and private. It comes from the Lord. Why…
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The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever…
— John Shelby Spong
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I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth --…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Even though the discples were not aware of it, the presence was with them while they were reviewing the scriptures together on…
— Karen Armstrong
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