A Survival Guide for Heretics Quotes

“The fossil record clearly shows that millions of years before humans existed, suffering and death did. Long before us asteroids were striking the earth, causing mass extinctions. Predation and disease have existed for as long as living things have. When modern humans came on the scene, approximately 200,000 years ago, we too were in a vicious struggle for survival against nature and each other. Humanity has never existed in some kind of pre-fallen, utopian world devoid of violence, suffering, and death. Therefore, humanity is not to blame for why these things exist.”
― Aaron Van Voorhis, A Survival Guide for Heretics

“Sin is no longer about having the wrong religious methods or customs. If that were true then Jesus was guilty of sin for breaking the Sabbath, breaking fasts, and breaking lots of purity laws by touching the sick, eating and drinking with sinners, and conversing with Gentile women. Jesus radically redefined sin in his day as simply that which is unjust and harms others.”
― Aaron Van Voorhis, A Survival Guide for Heretics