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Sam Harris Terror The End of Faith: Religion

Quote from Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Could there be any doubt that the Jews would seek to harm the Son of God again, knowing that his body was now readily accessible in the form of defenseless crackers?

Quote from Hector Avalos

By Hays’ reasoning, penetrating a rectum with a penis is a violation of how God meant humans to function. However, penetrating a human body with a sword, a common way to kill people in biblical times, is acceptable. Apparently human bodies were designed to be penetrated by metal implements, but not by flesh.

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Peter Kreeft

Quote from Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.

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Peter Kreeft

Quote from Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

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Peter Kreeft

Quote from Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

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The Idiot

Quote from Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

Why did you come in to-night with your heads in the air? ‘Make way, we are coming! Give us every right and don’t you dare breathe a word before us. Pay us every sort of respect, such as no one’s ever heard of, and we shall treat you worse than the lowest lackey!’ They strive for justice, they stand on their rights, and yet they’ve slandered him like infidels in their article. We demand, we don’t ask, and you will get no gratitude from us, because you are acting for the satisfaction of your own conscience! Queer sort of reasoning!… He has not borrowed money from you, he doesn’t owe you anything, so what are you reckoning on, if not his gratitude? So how can you repudiate it? Lunatics! They regard society as savage and inhuman, because it cries shame on the seduced girl; but if you think society inhuman, you must think that the girl suffers from the censure of society, and if she does, how is it you expose her to society in the newspapers and expect her not to suffer? Lunatics! Vain creatures! They don’t believe in God, they don’t believe in Christ! Why, you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you’ll end by eating up one another, that’s what I prophesy. Isn’t that topsy-turvydom, isn’t it infamy?

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Peter Kreeft

Quote from Peter Kreeft

Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul.

Quote from William Lane Craig, Reasonable Faith

‎”If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like prisoners condemned to death, we await our unavoidable execution. There is no God, and there is no immortality. And what is the consequence of this? It means that life itself is absurd. It means that the life we have is without ultimate significance, value, or purpose.

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Quote from Ray Simpson, Exploring Celtic Spirituality

Contemplative prayer is natural, unprogrammed; it is perpetual openness to God, so that in the openness his concerns can flow in and out of our minds as he wills.

Quote from John Ortberg, Love Beyond Reason: Moving God’s Love from Your Head to Your Heart

If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

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