More from Charles Hartshorne

  1. [T]he traditional idea of divine perfection or infinity is hopelessly unclear or ambiguous and that persisting in that tradition is bound t…
  2. No one in my family disbelieved in religion, and no one disbelieved in evolution, either.
  3. In all countries and in all historical times there have been individuals to whom multitudes have looked for guidance in religion. Buddha, L…
  4. What we need is to make a renewed attempt to worship the objective of God, not our forefathers' doctrines about him.
  5. The idea of revelation is the idea of special knowledge of God, or of religious truth, possessed by some people and transmitted by them to …
  6. Musicians who have listened to birds believe [that birds derive pleasure from singing] much more than ornithologists, who are terrified of …
  7. In Plato's Republic one finds the proposition: God, being perfect, cannot change (not for the better, since 'perfect' means that there can …
  8. The world has too many automobiles and televisions. Now the standard is there should be one car and TV for every person. This is not health…

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