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“It strikes me often while I am in Iran that were Christian evangelicals to take a tour of Iran today, they might find it the model for an ideal society they seek in America. Replace Allah with God, Mohammad with Jesus, keep the same public and private notions of chastity, sin, salvation, and God's will, and a Christian Republic is born.”
― Hooman Majd, The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran

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“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: christianity, fundamentalism, god, humor, idolatry, misattributed-to-anne-lamott, spirituality, truth

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“Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

tags: educational, inspirational

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“There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.”
― Bart D. Ehrman, God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer

tags: critical-thinking, dogma, fanaticism, fundamentalism, religion

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“We cannot build the future by avenging the past.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

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