Word: thinks
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...talk a lot about evangelicals' mission to save souls. Did you ever get the sense that being a Christian was about more than just a pass into heaven? I think that there are some people who are just motivated by the glory awaiting them in the next life, but the experience that I had of most people was that they were very concerned with being good in this life. They wanted to do as Jesus would do in this life...
...feel like they really did as Jesus would do? Were they really living what they said? In many ways, yes. The selflessness that I saw there, the willingness to sacrifice, was very impressive to me. But I think there's [also] a lot of bigotry there that did not strike me as being synonymous with Jesus' attitude. I think their attitude toward the gay community - love the sinner, hate the sin - is very disingenuous because what it's like in practice is that they are both repulsed and amused by gay people. To me it's less important that they...
...regret going undercover and pretending to be a Christian? I regret it in that I think it hurt people I care about. I regret the blitheness with which I participated in religious rituals I just couldn't bring myself to take seriously. But I think that the ability for my book to bridge a gap between evangelical Christians and nonbelievers does mitigate to some extent what...
...hope nonbelievers will use this book to explore their own beliefs more? I hope that it inspires people to be more conscious about what they believe. I had never stopped to think why don't I believe in God, or about a lot of my political points of view. Why am I pro-choice? Being around people who disagreed with me on almost everything, I had to re-examine every part of what I believed to make sure I believed it for a reason...
...poor farmers, when an unidentified assailant or assailants approached him on a motorcycle and opened fire. Souza's wife and her friend had biked ahead and turned when they heard the shots. Although they have no firm leads to go on, police are treating the case as murder. "I think it was because of his work," Nogueira da Silva told TIME in a telephone interview. "His work was dangerous, he dealt with land grabbers and these people always have pistoleiros. What he did was a high risk activity...