Quote #15

What we need is to make a renewed attempt to worship the objective of God, not our forefathers' doctrines about him.

More from Charles Hartshorne

  1. No one in my family disbelieved in religion, and no one disbelieved in evolution, either.
  2. Musicians who have listened to birds believe [that birds derive pleasure from singing] much more than ornithologists, who are terrified of …
  3. The reward for living is the living itself.
  4. 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…
  5. [T]he traditional idea of divine perfection or infinity is hopelessly unclear or ambiguous and that persisting in that tradition is bound t…
  6. Hitler made it impossible to keep believing in pacifism, which was one of the many terrible things he did to the world.
  7. In all countries and in all historical times there have been individuals to whom multitudes have looked for guidance in religion. Buddha, L…
  8. [W]e live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.

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