If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?

I remember when I heard the words "Biblical criticism" in my town, it was with disdain: "Biblical criticism? How dare you?".

What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment God gave the world a single language. And then they stopped understanding each other.

What of the Exodus? That too, is a wonderful story, but from the viewpoint of an historian, it is - to use a word scholars love - problematic. Let's say there are doubts, to say the least, among many scholars, as to whether the Exodus actually occurred. That's a historical issue.

[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?