"Religion is now viewed by many as a……" — J.P. Moreland
"Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers"
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14 Quotes by J.P. Moreland
J.P. Moreland has 14 quotes on this site.
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While the Christian faith clearly teaches that believers are to be involved as good citizens in the state, nevertheless, it…
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The proper thing to do is to admit that hell is real and to allow our feelings of discomfort to…
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No one will go to hell simply because all they needed was a little more time and they died prematurely.
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When God chooses to create somebody, he or she has an impact on other people's choices and it might be…
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If we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be…
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Instead of responding to these attacks with a vigorous intellectual counterpunch, many believers grew suspicious of intellectual issues altogether. To…
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In Scripture, faith involves placing trust in what you have reason to believe is true. Faith is not a blind,…
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Love God with all your mind...
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The soul is the ego, the ‘I,’ or the self, and it contains our consciousness. It also animates our body.…
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The contemporary Christian mind is starved, and as a result we have small, impoverished souls.
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If you were to force people to do something against their free choice, you would be dehumanizing them. The option…
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God maintains a delicate balance between keeping his existence sufficiently evident so people will know he's there and yet hiding…
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More Crutch Quotes
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one of 74 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested…
— James A. Baldwin
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Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people
— Jesse Ventura
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Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.
— Tom Stoppard
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Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to…
— J I Packer
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The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch…
— Harry Browne
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say…
— Larry Flynt
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Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Whatever you do, don't ever use a crutch, and don't ever think of having an excuse for not having said,…
— Isadore Sharp
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Some say Christianity is just a crutch. But let's turn the question on its edge for a moment. Is atheism…
— Greg Koukl
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I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as…
— Claire Forlani
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
— John Dryden
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An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn't it be better…
— Warren Buffett
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