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- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating,…
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He…
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.
- A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.
- Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.
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