- Nov 07, 2020
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- Commonly
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it matters almost infinitely that we practice one of the authentic religions. But if you mean does it make any difference which. The answer is no, as long as each is followed with equal intensity, sincerity, dedication.
- Granted
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. It's the same in religion.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The faith I was born into formed me. I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in my case, my religious upbringing was positive. Of course, not everyone has this experience. I know many of my students are what I have come to think of as wounded Christians or wounded Jews.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known - almost the only thing that is forbidden now is to forbid - and Asian teachers and their progeny play up to this propensity by soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's rules.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death.
- Morals
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scientific method is nearly perfect for understanding the physical aspects of our life. But it is a radically limited viewfinder in its inability to offer values, morals and meanings that are at the center of our lives.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine it outside the balloon to see where it is floating - or if it is floating at all.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020