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Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple."  Lk 14:25-27 Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

"Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular authority has led to democracy, human rights, and the protection of the environment. Humanists make no apologies for this. Humanists twist no biblical doctrine to justify such actions." Fred Edwords, “What is Humanism?” (1989). Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

Prayer Fails Because Nobody's Listening

I think there is a puritanical wind that is blowing. I have never seen such a lack of separation between church and state in America. Kevin Bacon, interviewed by The Times, 2005 Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

We have our hands, we have our brains, we have the challenge all around us, and we have within (from whatever source) the will to strive. That is enough; there is no need to assert 'belief' in that which we do not, as yet, know. Robert A. Heinlein, personal correspondence in 1956 with Warren Allen Smith, cited in Who's Who in Hell Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

He [Josiah] executed the priests of the pagan shrines on their own altars, and he burned human bones on the altars to desecrate them.... He did this in obedience to all the laws written in the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had found in the LORD's Temple. Never before had there been a king like Josiah, who turned to the LORD with all his heart and soul and strength, obeying all the laws of Moses. And there has never been a king like him since. 2 Kings 23:20-25 NLT Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering