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I believe because it is absurd.

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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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Dog God Sarcastic Truth
For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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Discipline Law Willing
It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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Eyes Kindness Practice
Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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Moments Place Soul
You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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Forgiveness God Let Go Truth
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Atheist Believe Religion
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
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Enough God Men Reveal
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline Faith Judgement Quality
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth

I believe because it is absurd.

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