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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.

Hans Kung

We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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Age Day Invention Thinking
Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
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Destruction Employment Family Human Myself Planet
God’s love does not protect us from suffering. God’s love protects us in the midst of suffering.
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Deep God Love Protection Suffering
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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Pure Religion War
After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
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Cold Community End History War World
A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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Abandonment Religious Truth
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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Essence Myself Nation Religion Right
We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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Conscious Economics Problem Religious Solve
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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Dignity Myself Person Religious Worst
It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
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Change Unknown
For many people, the pope is still, to a certain extent, a positive role model and a moral force, although others feel that this aspect has suffered greatly.
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Force Greatness Moral People Positive Suffering
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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Nation Peace Religion
A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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Human Infinite Protection
Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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Better Economics Global Humanity Order Possession
The Gospel has to be the norm.
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Religious Scripture Standard
Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
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Agree Command Date Divine Rule

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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