#theology

I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#grow up #i #love #mormon #religion

Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons, all we are left with is emotional blackmail. We sometimes call it 'moral blackmail,' but it has nothing to do with morals, only with the implied juvenile threat of having a tantrum unless everyone else gives in. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#church #discipleship #inspirational #religion #theology

I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist. ↗

— Charles Stross

#cosmic-sadist #death #everything #life #religion

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#general #human #ingenuity #me #seems

John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable. ↗

— Claudio Hummes

#based #christ #clear #ii #jesus

If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals. ↗

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

#social-justice #theology #equality

Theology is the logic of the Devil. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#logic #theology

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#life #life is a #like #lived #logical

Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#i #i think #last #more #our

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

#atheism #collection #doubt #express #few