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God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

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Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

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Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.

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The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.

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The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.

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In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

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Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.

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Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

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Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.

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I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Clergyman

Born: March 8th, 1948

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