Top 7 Stephen R. Prothero Quotes

#1. Pretending that the world's religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more dangerous. What we need on this furiously religious planet is a realistic view of where religious rivals clash and where they can cooperate.

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#2. But even if religion makes no sense to you, you need to make sense of religion to to make sense of the world.

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#3. True, (Jefferson's) rational religion ran in rivulets outside the American mainstream, but heterodoxy is faith of a different form and, like orthodoxy, should be recognized for what it is: a way of being religious.

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#4. One of history's most dangerous games begins with dividing the world into the good guys and the bad guys and ends with using any means necessary to take the villains out.

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#5. Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God.

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#6. Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.

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#7. Like all religious people, Christians repress, remember, and retell their core stories selectively. They emphasize this episode at the expense of that episode, in keeping with their own biases and the preoccupations of their times.

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