Whispering in church

Whispering in church July 16, 2012

I then considered it as merely the ravings of a maniac no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams.”

“For men’s religion to God is between God and themselves. The king shall not answer for it. Neither may the King judge between God and men. Let them be heretics, Turks, Jews or whatsoever, it appertains not to the earthly power to punish them in the least measure.”

“We are not talking about a mere custom, but a biblical principle that has defined the Jewish people from time immemorial.”

“This is when all of this stops being simple ignorance and starts becoming infuriating.”

“After 14 years, I asked, did every second still count? Hadn’t he earned a day of rest? ‘It’s inconceivable,’ he said. ‘There are not breaks in a war.'”

“I came from a different mind-set growing up, and my mind has changed. My viewpoint on all these things — equality for women, the choice to love anyone you want — hopefully, we will look back at this moment and think like we do now concerning [other] civil rights issues. We’ll just shake our heads in disbelief, saying, ‘Thank God we’ve evolved.’ That would be my prayer for the future.”

“Patricia Wheat, an activist I met at an antiabortion rally in South Carolina, contended that the Constitution ‘comes out of the Book of Deuteronomy, which sets specific precepts for government.'”

No other church in history has ever made all its clergy celibate. It’s a peculiarity of the Western Latin church, and it looks increasingly unrealistic.”

“The church — if it’s to adapt and not disappear with the blacksmiths, manual typewriters and Kodachrome film — will have to return to its center, Christ Jesus, and to its mission.” (via)

“One of the most widespread errors in interpretation is thinking the Bible was written primarily as a rule book for our 21st century American lives.”

The religious right doesn’t ignore Bible passages about slavery altogether; it uses them to support anti-worker, anti-union policies.”

“It might have led to an increase in denominational humility — the sense that maybe there are things to be learned from other kinds of Christians, the outside world, or the moral trajectory of human history.”

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