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Christopher Dawson

"Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture."

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"Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture."

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Brennan Manning

"A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist."

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"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."

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Brennan Manning

"Only the Prince of Peace gives peace."

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Brennan Manning

"There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't."

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Brennan Manning

"A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory."

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Brennan Manning

"The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes."

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Brennan Manning

"Keep your hope in the Lord."

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Brennan Manning

"Religion is a cultural relic inherited from ancient civilizations that doctrinal influence persists globally in modern times. Religious people rely upon their notional belief in the primal innocence of human beings in order to support the abstract supposition of inherently benevolent God guiding human souls."

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Brennan Manning

"Unlike most other world religions, Buddhism has never been too rigid in its structure."

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Brennan Manning

"A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality."

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Christopher Dawson
"It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends."

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Christopher Dawson
"Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces."

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Christopher Dawson
"But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them."

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Christopher Dawson
"This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other."

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Christopher Dawson
"It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions."

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Christopher Dawson
"Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples."

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Christopher Dawson
"Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture."

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Christopher Dawson
"As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism."

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Christopher Dawson
"It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole."

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Christopher Dawson
"Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being."

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