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the only viable response to religious hostility is love, empathy, compassion, understanding--not more hostility. (What could be more pathetic than a hostile fight against hostility?)
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Church!" she cried. "Why would I ever go there? I was already feeling terrible about myself. They'd just make me feel worse."
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God is not the tribal deity of one group of "chosen" people. God is not for us and against all others. God is for us and for them, too. God loves everyone everywhere, no exceptions." --
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The cross calls humanity to stop trying to make God's kingdom happen through coercion and force, which are always self-defeating in the end, and instead, to welcome it through self-sacrifice and vulnerability.
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I guess you could say that the Bible is a book that doesn't try to tell you what to think. Instead, it trys to teach you how to think. It stretches your thinking; it challenges you to think bigger and harder than you ever have.
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