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Like the Ismailis, Natan’el argued that God sent different prophets to the various nations of the world, containing legislations suited to the particular temperament of each individual nation. Each people should remain loyal to its own religion, because the universal teaching was adapted to the specific conditions and experiences
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“It’s a first victory” for Ukraine, said Oksana Abu-Akel, who hailed it as a significant step in the Ukrainian Orthodox church’s efforts to cut ties with Russia after it started the war more than 10 months ago. “This is the first time in 300 years that there is
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“People say that God created mankind after his image. This means that man created God after his image.” I love this quote because it’s so obvious, but also because it brings to mind this idea we’ve been pursuing regarding the voice of God being the voice of your
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“The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.” Excerpt From: Alan Watts & Deepak Chopra. “The Wisdom of Insecurity.” Knopf
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—F. ROBERT DE LAMENNAIS I went to a private Lutheran school for fourth through eighth grades. In my family, my paternal grandmother was religious, but no one else was. They were all too smart, too educated to take religion seriously. I was the only member of my family to attend
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A must read essay from Lyz’s Dingus of the Week substack, tracing the racism inherent in “Evangelical Family Values”: (“Kegels” were born.) Wait, what? electroshock therapy Don’t be gay, Sparky! The man dubbed “Mr. Marriage” also gave considerable attention to clients’ temperaments. One of his first-generation eugenics colleagues,
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I am neither a saint nor a theologian. To me, good works are more important than theology. We all know that religion has been historically, and still is today, a cause of great evil as well as great good in human affairs. We have seen terrible wars and terrible persecutions