Stephen Prothero Quotes

• Pretender que las religiones del mundo son iguales no hace que nuestro mundo sea más seguro. Como todas las formas de ignorancia, hace que nuestro mundo sea más peligroso. Lo que necesitamos en este planeta furiosamente religioso es una visión realista de dónde chocan los rivales religiosos y dónde pueden cooperar.

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  Religious, Ignorance, Our World

  Stephen Prothero (2010). “God Is Not One”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.

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  Tolerance, Virtue, Empty

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• Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God, and even to go to war on God's behalf. This 'blasphemy of certainty' is also rife among secularists who in their case have not God but science or the proletariat on their side.

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  Atheist, War, Opportunity

  Stephen Prothero (2010). “God Is Not One”, p.356, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or Buddhism's Four Noble Truths but that they hold certain moral positions on bedroom issues such as premarital sex, homosexuality, and abortion.

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  Religious, Jesus, Sex

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• At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe and the United States in the 1960s, it has been fashionable to affirm that all religions are beautiful and all are true...This is a lovely sentiment but it is dangerous, disrespectful, and untrue.

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  Beautiful, Europe, Lovely

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