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All of this bore the hallmarks of religious practice – the deference, the repetition, the flames – but there was one crucial difference: no belief underpinned it.


“A fool pulls the leaves. A brute chops the trunk. A sage digs the roots. —LORN AU ARCOS”
― Iron Gold
― Iron Gold

“If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters

“Despite evangelicals’ frequent claims that the Bible is the source of their social and political commitments, evangelicalism must be seen as a cultural and political movement rather than as a community defined chiefly by its theology.”
― Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
― Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

“Please tell me again and again that God doesn’t love me more when I obey or less when I disobey.”
― It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News
― It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News

“Effective evangelism requires relationships. There are very few exceptions.”
― Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity
― Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity
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