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We were playing some Christian school from downtown Birmingham, a team stocked with huge, gargantuan apemen with thick beards and a strong distaste for turning the other cheek.
Clever
“The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.”
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“It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.”
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“I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.”
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“Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.”
― Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
― Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
“A faith without some doubts is like a human body with no antobodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent to ask the hard questions about why they believe as they do will find themselves defenseless against either the experience of tragedy or the probing questions of a smart skeptic. A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.”
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