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“life isn’t always a series of binary choices. Sometimes it’s not about either/or but about learning how to manage the complexities of both/and.”
― What Kind of Paradise
― What Kind of Paradise
“The longing for love is a flawed piece of human coding. It scrambles every circuit in your brain”
― What Kind of Paradise
― What Kind of Paradise
“characterizing Christians as criminally minded people whose meetings were covers for secret rituals involving “people of both sexes, and all ages,” including children, in group orgies:”
― Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation
― Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation
“The historical Jesus did not make history. The remembered Jesus did.”
― Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
― Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
“Brings to mind the old Arthur C. Clarke quote,” Shepard said. “You know, the one about how any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Anyone capable of harnessing the power of nature would have been worshiped by people far more primitive.”
― The Fifth Kind: Arrival
― The Fifth Kind: Arrival
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