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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 orderly is nearing the end of his rounds. I can hear his footsteps echoing in the hall and his ragged breathing. He’s a big man. I can smell his sweat. He’s checking on the inmate next door. It’ll be my turn next. He always saves me for last. I guess it’s because he’s scared of me. I don’t blame him. I’m scared of me, too.”
― Sunglasses After Dark
― Sunglasses After Dark
“Conoscersi è il miglior modo per capirsi— capirsi è il solo modo per amarsi (To know each other is the best way to understand each other–—to understand each other is the only way to love each other.)”
― The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican
― The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican
“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
“Yet it is perhaps worth mentioning that the masculine tenor of God-talk is particularly problematic in English. In Hebrew, Arabic and French, however, grammatical gender gives theological discourse a sort of sexual counterpoint and dialectic, which provides a balance that is often lacking in English. Thus in Arabic al-Lah (the supreme name for God) is grammatically masculine, but the word for the divine and inscrutable essence of God—al-Dhat—is feminine.”
― 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
“When one conception of God has ceased to have meaning or relevance, it has been quietly discarded and replaced by a new theology. A fundamentalist would deny this, since fundamentalism is antihistorical: it believes that Abraham, Moses and the later prophets all experienced their God in exactly the same way as people do today. Yet if we look at our three religions, it becomes clear that there is no objective view of “God”: each generation has to create the image of God that works for it. The same is true of atheism. The statement “I do not believe in God” has meant something slightly different at each period of history. The”
― 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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