"Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own."

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"Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own."

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"We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door."

William James, American Philosopher

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"I'm an atheist and I thank God for it."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."

Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

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"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."

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"God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses."

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"No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God."

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"In the most important sense a creationist is a person who believes in creation, and that includes people who believe that Genesis is a myth and that creation involved a process called evolution and consumed billions of years."

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"In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it."

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"Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing to be per-suaded that He chose not to do so and instead employed secondary natural causes like random mutation and natural selection."

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"Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy."

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"Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like."

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"According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example."

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"To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea."

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"No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study."

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"All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so."

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"The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation."

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