- Nov 07, 2020
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- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition.
- Domesticated
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human beings have always been mythmakers.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020