Bruce Biddle
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“The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.”
― Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
― Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
“Like the waning of Christianity, the waning of the traditional family means that all of us in the modern West lead lives our ancestors could not have imagined. We are less fettered than they in innumerable ways; we are perhaps the freest people in the history of all humanity. At the same time, we are also more deprived of the consolations of tight bonds of family and faith known to most of the men and women coming before us—and this fact, it will be argued, has had wider repercussions than have yet been understood.”
― How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization
― How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization
“The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.”
― The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
― The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
“In a well-known 1996 article in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Akerlof explained, using the language of modern economics, why the sexual revolution—contrary to common prediction, especially prediction by those in and out of the Church who wanted the teaching on birth control changed—had led to an increase in both illegitimacy and abortion.4”
― Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution
― Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution
“Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.”
― The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
― The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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