If you accept a punitive notion of God, who punishes or even eternally tortures those who do not love him, then you have an absurd universe where most people on this earth end up being more loving than God!


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RICHARD LOUV
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and broo...
RICHARD FORD
I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for tho...
RICHARD MACDONALD
Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were ...
RICHARD FOREMAN
But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potentia...
RICHARD SERRA
I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there's a b...
RICHARD RODGERS
I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I wa...
RICHARD MARX
Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance...
RICHARD STALLMAN
Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its pro...
RICHARD NEAL
The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the fi...
RICHARD PRYOR
There are movies whose feel-good sentiments and slick craft annoy me so deeply that I know they will...
RICHARD CORLISS
If you think of the 1930s in film as the decade of Gable and Lombard, Cagney and Harlow, Stanwyck an...
RICHARD CORLISS
The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
RICHARD WRIGHT
I've been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky's continual bounty.
RICHARD O'BRIEN
I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able...
RICHARD SERRA
The Saudis, and in some cases the CIA, had encouraged and funded their foreign jihads, and these men...
RICHARD ENGEL
On August 3, 2012, the fifteenth day of the government offensive, rebels in the city said they were ...
RICHARD ENGEL
...if the United States never intended to help, it shouldn’t have built up the expectation. The fa...
RICHARD ENGEL
It took from 1967 to 2003—over three decades—to build the big men. It took a decade—2003 to 20...
RICHARD ENGEL
When the Furies were released in the Middle East, an evil emerged beyond my worst imaginings.
...
RICHARD ENGEL
the United States decided it was not going to intervene in Syria—at least for the time being. The ...
RICHARD ENGEL
This was the first time I had come face-to-face with the other side of fundamentalism. The fundament...
RICHARD ENGEL
Ironically enough, the United States had almost nothing to do with the age-old conflict between Isla...
RICHARD ENGEL
The Crusades, waged intermittently from 1095 to 1291, but which continued in waves for centuries aft...
RICHARD ENGEL
Ottoman provinces were re-formed and cobbled together into states. The region was carved up with lit...
RICHARD ENGEL
These days, I no longer believe there ever are truly good guys or bad guys in war, at least in the M...
RICHARD ENGEL
When I take risks now, I do so only when I have to and with every precaution. I used to prospect for...
RICHARD ENGEL
Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the see...
RICHARD ENGEL
MOST OF THE NATIONS OF the Middle East can be divided into those with long histories and no oil, and...
RICHARD ENGEL
...in the assassination of three of its first four caliphs, the “successors” to Mohammed and rul...
RICHARD ENGEL
The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a bri...
RICHARD BRANSON
The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current d...
RICHARD CORLISS
I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaki...
RICHARD DONNER
There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small ...
RICHARD THALHEIMER
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not real...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
As the enjoyment of God is the heaven of the Saints, so the loss of God is the hell of the ungodly. ...
RICHARD BAXTER
Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 I apprehended it a Matter o...
RICHARD BAXTER
Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 Lord, it belongs not to my car...
RICHARD BAXTER
Ye holy angels bright, Who wait at God's right hand, Or through the realms of light Fly at your L...
RICHARD BAXTER
Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass....
RICHARD PETTY
One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every li...
RICHARD MARX
I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat a...
RICHARD COBDEN
Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for o...
RICHARD BACH