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"The introduction alone provides so much food for thought and contemplation that I found myself not going on to the first chapter, but rather putting the book down in order to examine her initial arguments. In less than 20 pages she has me examining my own belief system and wanting to know more about other points of view. Two days later and I'm still reflecting on what she said." — Feb 03, 2015 07:58PM
"The introduction alone provides so much food for thought and contemplation that I found myself not going on to the first chapter, but rather putting the book down in order to examine her initial arguments. In less than 20 pages she has me examining my own belief system and wanting to know more about other points of view. Two days later and I'm still reflecting on what she said." — Feb 03, 2015 07:58PM
“The more I learned about the history of religion, the more my earlier misgivings appeared justified. The doctrines that I had accepted without question as a child were indeed man-made, constructed over a long period. Science seemed to have disposed of the Creator God, and biblical scholars had proved that Jesus had never claimed to be divine.”
― A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
― A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
“Yet my study of the history of religion has revealed that human beings are spiritual animals. Indeed, there is a case for arguing that Homo sapiens is also Homo religiosus”
― A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
― A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
“eminent monotheists in all three faiths—that instead of waiting for God to descend from on high, I should deliberately create a sense of him for myself.”
― A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
― A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
“There is a distinction between belief in a set of propositions and a faith which enables us to put our trust in them.”
― A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
― A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
“Had the notion of God not had this flexibility, it would not have survived to become one of the great human ideas.”
― A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
― A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
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