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Christendom is dead...but Christ is risen.
“For obviously a man ought to confess himself crazy before he confesses himself heretical. The Bohemian, with a red tie, ought to pique himself on his orthodoxy. The dynamiter, laying a bomb, ought to feel that, whatever else he is, at least he is orthodox.”
― Heretics
― Heretics
“When fundamentalism is the dominant paradigm, it's all too easy to suddenly careen from Christian fundamentalism to atheistic fundamentalism. Sometimes biblical literalism and angry atheism are just two sides of the same fundamentalist coin.”
― When Everything's on Fire: Faith Forged from the Ashes
― When Everything's on Fire: Faith Forged from the Ashes
“A stern Scotch minister remarked concerning the game of golf, with a terrible solemnity of manner, "the man who plays golf—he neglects his business, he forsakes his wife, he forgets his God." He did not seem to realise that it is the chief aim of many a modern capitalist's life to forget all three.”
― Eugenics and other Evils
― Eugenics and other Evils
“This matter of how best to interpret the term "day" in Genesis 1 is not one over which evangelical believers should quarrel; the point is, and all evangelical Christians accept this, that Genesis does teach that God is the creator of all which exists, that He effected this creation in six "days," and that He is a personal God embracing His entire creation in His providential care.”
― Introduction to Theology
― Introduction to Theology
“Now, the mere repetition made the things to me rather more weird than more rational. It was as if, having seen a curiously shaped nose in the street and dismissed it as an accident, I had then seen six other noses of the same astonishing shape. I should have fancied for a moment that it must be some local secret society. So one elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
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