Sublime

Better a suffering religion than a sanitized one.

Theologically and politically they couldn’t have been more different, but where they were similar (and therefore worth pitting against each other) was in their equal rejection of the pastor as polite.

Unlike Shimen, Heidi aspires to base her beliefs solely on evidence and to choose her commitments based on these justified beliefs. She specifically aspires for her most deeply held beliefs to transcend the particular culture in which she lives.

Elle est adaptée aux temps modernes, à la civilisation des loisirs, elle n’impose aucune contrainte morale et surtout elle promet l’immortalité. C’est cette idée d’immortalité qui m’a attiré vers les raéliens. Je n’ai jamais aimé la manière méprisante et suspicieuse dont, en France, on parle des sectes. Et j’ai toujours pensé que la phrase banale s

Perhaps the most notable Bogomil after the movement’s founder was the heresiarch Basil the Physician, who was active in the latter part of the eleventh century. It is said that his ministry lasted for 52 years before he was unmasked during the anti-heretical campaigns of the Byzantine emperor, Alexius Comnenus (1081–1118).

CHRISTIANITY, at first, was preached by Jews to Jews, as a reformed Judaism. Saint James, and to a lesser extent Saint Peter, wished it to remain no more than this, and they might have prevailed but for Saint Paul, who was determined to admit gentiles without demanding circumcision or submission to the Mosaic Law.

“Christianity is always out of fashion because it is always sane; and all fashions are mild insanities.

I’ve known pastors who were absolutely convinced that they were faithful men—right until the moment when they made a “connection” with the attractive woman in the front pew. I’ve known Christian leaders who believed they were honest—right until the moment when honesty might harm their ministry. And I’ve known celebrities who believed they were humb

K maintained that no social reform would ever end human misery; people would always transform any new system into what they themselves were;