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Quote by H. Richard Niebuhr

“Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.”

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H. Richard Niebuhr was a prominent American theologian and philosopher, recognized for his seminal contributions to religious ethics and social philosophy. His writings have profoundly shaped the discourse on Christian ethics and the role of religion in public affairs. more

“Evolution lies at the heart of biology. It is seamlessly and continuously linked to health research to better understand such conditions as AIDS or bird flu or Parkinson's or cancer or heart disease. Every biomedical experiment, every tiny advance, every major breakthrough ultimately connects to the principles first postulated by Darwin.”

“Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith and salvation as presented by Jesus in the Gospels.”

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Author:Shadia Drury

“If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.”

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