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The Christ path is the path I've walked all my life, so it's normal and natural. And I have no reason to abandon it because it leads to where I want to go.
- Century
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I am a child of the 21st century.
- Christian Church
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Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.
- God
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The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world.
- Church
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My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would want to be a member of anyway.
- Control
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We've got to deal with the fact that the church has been violently prejudiced against gay people. We've murdered them; we've burned them at the stake; we've run them out of town for something over which they have no control. And that's immoral.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.
- Christian
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The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church.
- Nature
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It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.
- Debatable
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Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state.
- Humanity
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Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue.
- Controversial
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In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches.
- History
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Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.
- Most
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Almost any poll of regular churchgoers will reveal that their favorite book in the New Testament is the Gospel of John. It is the book that is most often used at Christian funerals.
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