I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
HANS KUNGReligion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
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That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
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In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
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I don’t cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That’s the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position.
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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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God’s love does not protect us from suffering. God’s love protects us in the midst of suffering.
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A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia – even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
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It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
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In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what “decreed” means.
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