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I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views.

~Elaine Pagels

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These ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope.

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Topics: Ancient Desire Hope Move Our Religion Speak Stories Toward Us

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I have sympathy for anyone who finds consolation anywhere we can. And many people do find it in religious tradition as it has been. I mean, I love much of that tradition. But somehow, that just didn't speak to me in the way that it does to some.

~Elaine Pagels

Topics: Anyone Anywhere Been Consolation Does Find Finds Just Love Many Me Mean Much People Religious Some Somehow Speak Sympathy Tradition Way Who I Love

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I had been taught that the separation between religion and politics happened in the Enlightenment. But there were people who tried to create a secular relationship to government 2,000 years ago, and those people were the Jews.

~Elaine Pagels

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I got to thinking about the Book of Revelation that was written by a Jewish prophet who was also a follower of Jesus who hated the Roman Empire. I realized that the Book of Revelation could be a way to reflect on the issue of religion's relationship to politics.

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There is no evidence that the author of the Book of Revelation, John of Patmos, read anything that we think of as a New Testament book. I don't see any evidence that he knew what was in the Gospels, or the letters of Paul, which I don't think he would have liked at all.

~Elaine Pagels

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The Book of Revelation is all about the conflict, the contest between the forces of Good and Evil.

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I realized that conventional views of Christian faith that I'd heard when I was growing up were simply made up - and I realized that many parts of the story of the early Christian movement had been left out.

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Topics: Been Christian Christian Faith Conventional Early Faith Growing Growing Up Had Heard Left Made Many Movement Out Parts Realized Simply Story Up Views Were

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I realize that I cannot live without a spiritual dimension in my life.

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The sense of a spiritual dimension in life is absolutely important, and the religious communities are also important. The question of believing in a set of creedal statements is a lot less important, because I realize the Christian movement thrived then and can now on other elements of the tradition.

~Elaine Pagels

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: February 13th, 1943

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