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The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.

Peter Kreeft

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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
Philosopher
Professor
Theologian
Writer
Paterson
New Jersey
Peter John Kreeft
Idolatry
Opposite
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Atheism
Christianity

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Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.
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When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.
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Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family. Our no-fault insurance has removed our responsibility for car accidents, and no-fault divorce has removed our responsibility for marriage accidents why should abortion not be our no-fault sexual insurance policy that removes our responsibility for sex accidents?
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Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive
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Actually, we have misdefined hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.
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Remembering the facts of death and Heaven gives us an even more pressing reason to learn to pray: We do not have an infinite amount of time. We are one day nearer Home today than we ever were before. I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying I wish I had watched more TV instead.'
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Love is the binding force on every level of existence.
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Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.
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The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.
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Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.
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To worship a crocodile is better to worship yourself.
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It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.
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How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is surrounded by matter, or matter is surrounded by meaning.
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Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.
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Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family.
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All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.
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We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.
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Scripture starts with the particular and then universalizes it. You are called to love your concrete individual neighbor and then to realize that every individual is your neighbor. The point is not to destroy concrete neighborhood in a fit of universalism but to expand the local neighborhood and embrace the universal neighborhood.
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Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence.
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The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.
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