Peter Bradley

“Just as it is impossible to know when a swimming fish is drinking water, so it is impossible to find out when a government servant is stealing money”
― Kautilya, The Arthashastra

“By this I mean the fact that Hitler regarded the Darwinian criticism of the West’s antecedent religious traditions as decisive for their refutation and searched for a new, naturalistic theology guided by the root principle of natural selection, the immanent struggle of life against life. Hitler’s new theology then would be firmly rational, based on science, with an articulate theological doctrine—not running around in the woods naked hugging trees and building bonfires, as he disdainfully mocked German neopagans.”
― Paul R. Hinlicky, Before Auschwitz: What Christian Theology Must Learn from the Rise of Nazism

“In so far as students have thought at all about the sources of the Nazi genocide of the Jews, however, almost all are unaware of Hitler’s modernism in matters of religion, nor of the fact, as we saw in Chapter 1, that the ranks of the Nazified German Christians were filled with theological modernists.139”
― Paul R. Hinlicky, Before Auschwitz: What Christian Theology Must Learn from the Rise of Nazism

“The twentieth-century theologian Karl Rahner commented that “God” is the last sound we should make before falling silent, and Saint Augustine, long ago, said, “si comprehendis, non est Deus” (if you understand, that isn’t God). All of this formal theologizing is but commentary on that elusive and confounding voice from the burning bush: “I am who am.”
― Robert E. Barron, Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith