Atheism Quote by Karl Rahner

“The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism.” quote by Karl Rahner — Download Open image

“The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism.”

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Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

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From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts…

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“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart and therefore you can act on it, you have completely justified the 9/11 bombers. You have justified Charlie Manson. If it's true for you, why isn't it true for them? Why are you different? If you…

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Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts.

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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make…

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God speaks through me.

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A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it…

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You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject.

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