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“Horror invites us to a face-to-face contact with the worst, a truthful revealing of humanity’s capacity for great evil and great good, of the deep and unconscious fears within us all...”

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Book:Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“Horror gives our fear a voice, an outlet that expresses all that we fear we are.”

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Book:Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“Shelob represents pure fear, that which paralyses us, a terror that horrifies us into inactivity.”

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Book:Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“When authentic speech is lost, what it is replaced with is fear, for without authentic speech creative acts of love are lost, lost to illusionary acts that maintain a culture of deception.”

Love Truth Fear Horror Authenticity Deception

Book:Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“To stand and look at our image, and then to ask questions as to our identity and place within the universe is unique to humanity.”

Inspirational Inspirational Quotes Humanity Society Unique Image

Book:Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“...in the human being, Jesus of Nazareth, we encounter humanity as we should be, and in that humanity we discover our true selves.”

Jesus Christianity Living Theology

Book:The Ghost of Perfection: Searching for Humanity

Source: The Ghost of Perfection: Searching for Humanity

“Compassion...is a terrifying thing, and our desire to see our enemies destroyed is far greater than our belief in the power of redemption...”

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Book:Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“...horror reminds us of the utter hopelessness and meaninglessness of evil and suffering; when a child dies of cancer there is no “hidden” meaning, no cosmic plan that we have to wait for to be revealed one day that will make sense of this great suffering, rather, the death of any child is an utter disgrace, a meaningless void of pain that hurts every part of what it means to be human, and any attempt to frame such tragedy as part of God’s plan needs to be exorcised from all our thinking.”

Truth Suffering Hope Horror Meaning Of Life

Book:Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“The West...struggles with death, hidden away behind closed coffins and curtains, language of “sleep,” “passing away,” and “rest”—unconscious strategies to enable us to avoid the power of death over our lives.”

Death Suffering Horror

Book:Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“We sacrifice others and feed on them in order to maintain our own existence.”

Suffering Quotes Horror

Book:Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“There is a reality in modern Western society whereby we are unable to look at ourselves truthfully, for we see something that causes us pain, distress, and a sense of shame.”

Pain Society Self Help Identity Shame Mirror

Book:Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“Our self-worth and identity are often projections made up from the images given to us, the words spoken over us, the actions done to us.”

Self Esteem Identity Self Improvement Self Worth Images

Book:Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“The violence ascribed to God, or commanded by God in the Bible, is, for many people, an ethical conundrum. Indeed, for some it reveals why Christianity is morally indefensible.”

Faith Christianity Violence Atheism Ethics Theology Biblical Violence

Book:Finding God

Source: Finding God

“...it is easier to speak of what God is not, rather than what God is.”

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Book:Finding God

Source: Finding God

“Christ came to help shift our distorted perceptions of God.”

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Book:Finding God

Source: Finding God

“Daddy, why did God kill all those children?”

Faith Violence Atheism Bible Questions Unbelief

Book:Finding God

Source: Finding God

“When christianity becomes a code of morality, an ethic of “right or wrong,” then you can be sure that we have ceased following Jesus faithfully, have abandoned relationship with God and each other, and have begun the futile search for “the ghost of perfection.”

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Book:The Ghost of Perfection: Searching for Humanity

Source: The Ghost of Perfection: Searching for Humanity

“...in the power of love and creativity, in the power of imagination...truth and hope is made possible.”

Love Inspirational Truth Hope Life Quotes Power Horror

Book:Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“...in a world defined by productivity and success, a reality we created, humanity find themselves defined and valued in the very same way. People are part of a seemingly never-ending system whereby their worth is determined by their usefulness or success; they have become “a thing among things” struggling to give meaning to their existence.”

Success Humanity Church Christianity Capitalism Consumerism

Book:The Ghost of Perfection: Searching for Humanity

Source: The Ghost of Perfection: Searching for Humanity

“The gospel revelation is that God becomes the victim of the crowd, exposing the violence of the crowd, and the potential for its will to become murderous. This mob’s will is opposed to the will of God, whose cruciform revealed will is one of forgiveness.”

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Book:Finding God

Source: Finding God

“Jesus heals our sin by bringing us into his presence, entering the community and “dragging” to himself all of humanity. He redeems “all things” through presence not expulsion, reconciliation not destruction, bringing peace through the offering of himself.”

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Book:Finding God

Source: Finding God

“The gospel is the declaration that love has entered into the fullness of our violence, fear, and horror in the Person of Jesus; love is the cosmic cure to the totality of death, not simply a soothing word when we are trembling, but the promise that one day all will be well.”

Love Jesus Fear Peace Christianity Violence Horror

Book:Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“Horror shows us that violence simply breeds violence, that there is no path to peace through retribution, that no wound is healed through the act of wounding.”

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Book:Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

“Nonviolent resistance is not the simple acceptance of your lot, the belief that you should simply roll over and die; rather, it is the active pursuit of liberation, the belief that transformation is truly possible without violence.”

Peace Forgiveness Transformation Liberation Quotes To Live By Nonviolence

Book:Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

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