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- First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn…
- A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all. ...The major religious traditions address the mysteries (with or…
- I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.
- I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up…
- All -isms end up in schisms.
- The faith I was born into formed me. I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in my case,…
- The Buddha is in me, the Buddha is in you. Live up to it.
- In my town, I had only one adult American male role model: my father. I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what…
- I happen to be a Christian. I was brought up and drenched in that. I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his…
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