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• Sometimes things which at the moment may be perceived as obstacles-and actually be obstacles, difficulties, or drawbacks-can in the long run result in some good end which would not have occurred if it had not been for the obstacle.

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  Running, Adversity, Long

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• One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism.

  Steve Allen

  Evil, Religion, Social

  Steve Allen (1990). “Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality”, Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books

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• Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.

  Steve Allen

  Dark, Energy, Mystery

  "Chandra unlocking mystery of 'dark energy'". www.cnn.com. May 18, 2004.

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• I'm all for sex. Seven nights a week. Days, too.

  Steve Allen

  Sex, Night, Week

  Steve Allen, Jane Wollman (1992). “How to be funny: discovering the comic you”

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• There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is needed is emphasis on morality and manners.

  Steve Allen

  Prayer, People, Religion

  Steve Allen (2001). “Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio : Raising the Standards of Popular Culture”

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• I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it is certainly the most important truth of human existence. If it is largely error, then it is one of monumentally tragic proportions—and should be vigorously opposed.

  Steve Allen

  Errors, Important, Littles

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• Just as with cars, it's critical to know the fuel efficiency of black holes.

  Steve Allen

  Car, Black, Fuel

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• The fundamentalist believer is mostly a weird intellectual who often lacks real faith altogether. As a self-appointed attorney for God, who is in no need of attorneys, he very easily turns out to be more godless than the agnostic and the unbeliever. At all events, he seems deaf to poetry.

  Steve Allen

  Real, Self, Intellectual

  Steve Allen (1993). “More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality”

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• There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only on the sinful pagans but even on his Chosen People fire, lighting, hideous plagues and diseases, brimstone, and other curses.

  Steve Allen

  Jealous, Fire, People

  Steve Allen (1990). “Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality”, Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books

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• Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.

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  Swimming, Thinking, Animal

  Steve Allen (1998). “Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking : with 101 Ways to Reason Better & Improve Your Mind”

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• To those who wish to punish others -- or at least to see them punished, if the avengers are too cowardly to take matters in to their own hands -- the belief in a fiery, hideous hell appears to be a great source of comfort.

  Steve Allen

  Hands, Religion, Wish

  Steve Allen (1990). “Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality”, Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books

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• God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith,
  then, is built upon ignorance and hope.

  Steve Allen

  Faith, Ignorance, Religion

  Steve Allen (1993). “More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality”

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• We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.

  Steve Allen

  Evil, Religion, Criticism

  Steve Allen (1993). “More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality”

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• The Bible is unfortunately unclear on a long list of moral and social questions and sex is one of them. On the one hand, there are expressions of admiration for the reportedly virgin mother of Jesus, but other portions of scripture speak quite accommodatingly of polygamy.

  Steve Allen

  Mother, Jesus, Sex

  Steve Allen (2001). “Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio : Raising the Standards of Popular Culture”

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• Consider the wave of revulsion that floods the average person when he or she hears of the practice of human sacrifice by the Aztecs and other so-called primitive peoples. How savage and barbaric such practices seem. But when a Christian or Jew comes across human sacrifice in the Bible (see Jephthah's immolation of his daughter in Judges 11:30-40), is he or she repulsed?

  Steve Allen

  Bible, Christian, Daughter

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