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"Christianity if false is not important. If Christianity is true however it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important."

"For Restoration Of Mankind To Be Fulfilled, A Terrible Sacrifice Was Necessary."

"Because she is in God's hands.' But if so, she was in God's hands all the time, and I have seen what they did to her here. Do they suddenly become gentler to us the moment we are out of the body and if so, why? If God's goodness is inconsistent with hurting us, then either God is not good or there is no God: for the only life we know He hurts us beyond our worst fears and beyond all we can imagine. If it is consistent with hurting us, then He may hurt us after death is unendurably as before it."

"Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the soul which are going to turn it, in the long run, into a heavenly or a hellish creature."

"Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety."

"Kingdom priority is understood by disciples only."

"Religion is the product of organizations called churches."
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"The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out."

"Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does."

"Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant."

"For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals."

"No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process."

"When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience."

"We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs."

"The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive."
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