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    In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and exchange ideas that religious beliefs begin to be eroded. No one changes his beliefs without some instigation, some novel experience, some modification of the customary course of things, and in a closed society people believe what all their fellows obviously believe. Only when they are brought into contact with persons whom they respect holding different views do they begin to look at their inherited beliefs critically.

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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the read more

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Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with read more

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The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.

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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect read more

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Beware of the man of one book.

Beware of the man of one book.

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Don't be an agnostic--be something.

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We are what we believe we are.

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Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't read more

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God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, read more

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