‘If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?’
“You see, Dr. Stadler, people don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they’ll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue—a highly intellectual virtue—out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
“Despite evangelicals’ frequent claims that the Bible is the source of their social and political commitments, evangelicalism must be seen as a cultural and political movement rather than as a community defined chiefly by its theology.”
― Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
― Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
“Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.”
― Red Rising
― Red Rising
“Please tell me again and again that God doesn’t love me more when I obey or less when I disobey.”
― It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News
― It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News
“Grace is the root of the gospel; peace is the fruit of the gospel.”
― Jesus + Nothing = Everything
― Jesus + Nothing = Everything
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