Stephen Prothero quotes
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“Pretending that the world’s religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more dangerous. What we need on this furiously religious planet is a realistic view of where religious rivals clash and where they can cooperate.”
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“Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God, and even to go to war on God's behalf. This 'blasphemy of certainty' is also rife among secularists who in their case have not God but science or the proletariat on their side.”
-- Stephen ProtheroSource : Stephen Prothero (2010). “God Is Not One”, p.356, ReadHowYouWant.com
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“Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.”
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“At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or Buddhism's Four Noble Truths but that they hold certain moral positions on bedroom issues such as premarital sex, homosexuality, and abortion.”
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“At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe and the United States in the 1960s, it has been fashionable to affirm that all religions are beautiful and all are true...This is a lovely sentiment but it is dangerous, disrespectful, and untrue.”
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“Pretending that the world’s religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more dangerous. What we need on this furiously religious planet is a realistic view of where religious rivals clash and where they can cooperate.”
-- Stephen ProtheroSource : Stephen Prothero (2010). “God Is Not One”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com
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Source : "Satires". Book by Juvenal, edited by A. E. Housman, p. XI, 1931.
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Source : Joel Henry Hildebrand (1985). “Science in the Making”, Praeger Pub Text
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“On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.”
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Source : Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.217, Oxford University Press
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