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“If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology. ”
― The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
― The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
“The only way to show a true respect for God is to act morally while ignoring God’s existence.”
― A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
― A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
“Respect only has meaning as respect for those with whom I do not agree.”
― A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
― A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
“And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God.”
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