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Mother Nature is not sweet.

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You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of 'getting along.'

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Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.

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I learned early in life that you get places by having the right enemies.

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I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books.

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I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication.

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I believe that God is very real.

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The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures.

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It's just not easy enough to say that I pray and God will accomplish.

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Religion is a mixed blessing.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: June 16th, 1931

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