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The blasphemy that attaches to monotheism is the blasphemy of certainty. If God is on our side, we must be right.We are right because we believe in God. We must defend God against the godless. Certitude clears the way for violence. p194

The blasphemy that attaches to monotheism is the blasphemy of certainty. If God is on our side, we must be right.We are right because we believe in God. We must defend God against the godless. Certitude clears the way for violence. p194

Our history as a species-really, astonishingly brief-can from one perspective be summed up as a battle for power, the chief strategy employed being mass murder justified on religious grounds. p105
from the essay The kingdom of the eternal heaven by Paula Huston

Memory may be our best tool for self- understanding, but only when we remember how weak a tool it really is: prone to warping under the narrative drive of storytelling, vulnerable to self- interest, susceptible to outside influence.
p43. from the essay by Joseph Bottum " the judgment of memory "