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“Even if it is true that all cultures share a common morality, why does this prove a supreme intelligence? After all, don't we humanists sometimes claim that there is a common thread of humanistic values running through history across cultural and religious lines?”

Ifs Doe Sometimes Running Religion Values Culture Religious Lines Common Share Morality Prove Claims Supreme Thread Humanistic Common Threads

Book:Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

Source: Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

“...genuine trust implies the opportunity, of checking wherever it may be wanted... That is why it is the evidence, the experience itself and the argument that gives it Order, that we need to share with one another, and not just the unsupported final Claim.”

Needs Giving May Wanted Order Opportunity Share Evidence Argument Claims Finals Genuine

Author:Philip Morrison

“It is not permitted for a woman to speak in the church, nor is it permitted for her to teach, nor to baptize, nor to offer [the eucharist], nor to claim for herself a share in any masculine function- not to mention any priestly office.”

Speak Church Teach Share Offers Office Function Claims Masculine Eucharist

Author:Tertullian

“None of us can claim to be fair and square in love - and I'm definitely not a hypocrite! Humans are built to evolve with time. It depends on the nature of the relationship you share with a person. It is there today, tomorrow it may be gone; c'est la vie.”

Humans May Persons Today Gone Share Depends Tomorrow Built Fairs Claims Evolve Squares Hypocrite

Author:Randeep Hooda

“But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the event of this text, which otherwise never quite makes it, our relation is that of a structurally posthumous necessity. Suppose, in that case, that I am not alone in my claim to know the idiomatic code (whose notion itself is already contradictory) of this event. What if somewhere, here or there, there are shares in this non-secret’s secret? Even so the scene would not be changed. The accomplices, as you are once again well aware, are also bound to die.”

Ifs Knows Wells Dies Secret Cases Doubt Share Events Changed Scene Claims Relation Notion Bounds Code No Doubt What If Not Alone Contradictory Accomplices Posthumous

Author:Jacques Derrida

“Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.”

Virtue Share Birth Glory Claims Vices Endeavor Ancestor

Author:Moliere

“Satan would seem to be mannerly and reasonable; making as if he would be content with one-half of the heart, whereas God challengeth all or none: as, indeed, He hath most reason to claim all that made all. But this is nothing but a crafty fetch of Satan; for he knows that if he have any part, God will have none: so the whole falleth to his share alone.”

Ifs Knows Heart Made Reason Whole Seems Would Be Prayer Half Share Claims Gods Will Temptation Satan Reasonable One Half Fetch Crafty

Book:Select Tracts from the Writings of the ... Rev. J. Hall

Source: Select Tracts from the Writings of the ... Rev. J. Hall

“Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.”

Ends Religion Belief Answers Results Share Atheism Evidence Claims Myth Cosmos Resemblance

Book:River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

Source: River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life