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Between Love And Plunder
Read without love scripture will become an assault weapon used against those whom we personally disapprove of in our own day.
Read without a sense of personal responsibility scripture means surrendering to the understanding of clergy who may know no more about life’s mysteries than we.
There is a reason that, in the biblical story when the tempter wanted to lure Jesus from the path of truth and love, he (the tempter) brought along a Bible. Nothing takes one further from the call to universal love than taking ink on paper as if it were the living word.
— Jim Rigby
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When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in society, over the course of time they create a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
— Frederic Bastiat
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Love has never been a popular movement, and no one has ever wanted to be free. The world is held together, really held together, by the love and passion of a very few people.
— James Baldwin
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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only…
