"In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest."
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"I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after."
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"The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation."
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"All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again."
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"We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil."
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"Reason should be destroyed in all Christians."
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"Those who've been rescued from sin are best able to help in the rescue of others."
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"What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected."
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"Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder."
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"Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience."
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"A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave"
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"Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed."
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"We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others."
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"Their [the evangelicals'] success also points to a hunger for the product they are selling, a hunger that goes beyond any particular issue or cause... They need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them."
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"If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun."
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"Our planet is a tiny atom in god's kingdom."
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"But in the end all religions point to the same light. In between the light and us, sometimes there are too many rules. The light is here and there are no rules to follow this light."
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"The Lord often has his prophets climb mountains to converse with Him. I always wondered why He did that, and now I know the answer: when we are on high, we can see everything else as small. Our glory and sadness lose their importance. Whatever we conquered or lost remains there below. From the heights of the mountain, you see how large the world is, and how wide its horizons."
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"It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found."
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"Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check."
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