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The fact is, laws concerning the appropriate practice of slavery are not only present in the Hebrew Bible, but they can also be quite shocking. Fathers can sell their daughters into slavery. Foreign slaves can be kept for life and passed on
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“Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.”
― Thomas Paine From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'
― Thomas Paine From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'
“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
― The Name of the Rose
― The Name of the Rose
“Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge and understanding of man?”
― Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality
― Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality
“Wouldn’t the sentence ‘I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign’ have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?”
― Aha! Insight
― Aha! Insight
“The Enlightenment dared us to think, but there will always be a religion and a God for those who wouldn’t dare.”
― The Folly of God: A Theology of the Unconditional
― The Folly of God: A Theology of the Unconditional
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This is a group where people who are members of the Adventist church, and those who are former/ex-members and also those who might be neither, but hav ...more
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