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Vincent Van Gogh

Posted in Arts, Autonomy, Happiness, Humanity, Identity, Individualism, Love, Mankind, Meaning, Pleasure, Selfishness, Westernism on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one’s love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger. Sometimes it is well to go into the world and converse with people, and at times one is obliged to do [...]

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Tom Morris

Posted in Culture, Happiness, Humanity, Identity, Individualism, Knowledge, Mankind, Meaning, Pleasure, Searching, Values, Westernism on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The good life involves freedom, love, work, pleasure, challenge, friendship, community, service, and the sort of resources that can be used creatively. (Tom Morris – former professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame)

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Carl Sagan

Posted in Atheism, Individualism, Rationalism, Reason, Skepticism on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. (Carl Sagan [1934-1996], was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences)

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John Calvin

Posted in Autonomy, Belief, Creator, Faith, God, Individualism, Knowledge, Sin on July 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he first has looked upon God’s face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself. (John Calvin – Institutes of the Christian Religion I:1:2 [page 37 of the Battles Translation]. Calvin was a 16th c. protestant reformer, pastor and theologian).

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Arthur C. Clarke

Posted in Atheism, Belief, Creator, Faith, God, Humanity, Image of God, Individualism, Mankind, Rationalism, Reason, Searching, Skepticism, Spirituality, Westernism on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him. (Arthur C. Clarke – Atheist and British science fiction author, most famous for 2001: A Space Odyssey. [1917-2008])

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Jay Howard and John Streck

Posted in Arts, Belief, Community, Culture, Discipleship, Freedom, Individualism, Love, Music, Relationships, Renewal, Sanctification, Social Problems on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In focusing on individual belief, evangelicals have necessarily focused on individuals…poverty, hunger, abortion, drug abuse, and other such issues are thus approached as personal failings rather than social problems. Systemic elements simply aren’t included in the equation. (Jay Howard and John Streck from Apostles of Rock: The Splintered World of Contemporary Christian Music)

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Susan Schaefer

Posted in Autonomy, Culture, Freedom, Inclusivity, Individualism on April 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

If Americans define freedom as autonomy and mobility, Europeans concentrate on inclusivity. They feel free only when they see that others in their communities are free, too. (Susan Schaefer)

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Mark Buchanan

Posted in Community, Individualism, Religion on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

American religion is a mass of contradictions. We want community, but on strictly individual terms. We want human closeness without feeling cramped or obligated. We want a personal God who doesn’t ask much personally. We want mystery, but in a controlled, non-disruptive way. We want a faith that’s fulfilling, practical, earthy, tolerant, transcendent, fun, empowering, [...]

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