Even apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the Either of the lost, can we be surprised at a time when retributive punishments without an opportunity of probation are being increasingly abandoned in education and penal justice, that the idea not only of a lifelong, but even eternal punishment of body and soul, seems to many people absolutely monstrous.

As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

I don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position.