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I’m not saying goodbye to life because I’m a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it’s time to move on.

Hans Kung

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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I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God’s infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.
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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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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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The Gospel has to be the norm.
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But I have to add – and this answers your other question – this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.
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All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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