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the judge who lays claim to them all. Just as his appearance in the desert, the entire history of Judge Holden is strange; in fact, he seems to not have a past so much as to endlessly recur. At one point the gang returns to Chihuahua to ...more
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Alvin Plantinga
“The mere fact that a belief is unpopular at present (or at some other time) is interesting from a sociological point of view but evidentially irrelevant.”
Alvin Plantinga, God, Freedom, and Evil

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“I asked the late great German novelist Heinrich Böll what the basic flaw was in the German character. He said, “Obedience.” ***”
Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

Paul Copan
“The never-angered person is morally deficient.”
Paul Copan, Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God

William T. Cavanaugh
“What counts as religious or secular in any given context is a function of different configurations of power. The question then becomes why such essentialist constructions are so common. I argue that, in what are called "Western" societies, the attempt to create a transhistorical and transcultural concept of religion that is essentially prone to violence is one of the foundational legitimating myths of the liberal nation-state. The myth of religious violence helps to construct and marginalise a religious other, prone to fanaticism, to contrast with the rational, peace-keeping, secular subject. This myth can and is used in domestic politics to legitimate the marginalisation of certain types of practices and groups labeled religious, while underwriting the nation-state's monopoly on its citizens' willingness to sacrifice and kill. In foreign policy, the myth of religious violence serves to cast nonsecular social orders, especially Muslim societies, in the role of the villain. THEY have not yet learned to remove the dangerous influence of religion from political life. THEIR violence is therefore irrational and fanatical. OUR violence, being secular, is rational, peace making, and sometimes regrettably necessary to contain their violence. We find ourselves obliged to bomb them into liberal democracy.”
William T. Cavanaugh

Mary Doria Russell
“Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.”
Mary Doria Russell, Children of God

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