I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.

What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.

Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.

If you want to be a Roman Catholic scholar and write, you've got to write in such a way that nobody understands what you're saying, and then you're thought to be profound.

All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, can properly be used as the basis for either rejection or discrimination.

Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.

The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures.