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The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.

William P. Young

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William P. Young
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: May 11
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William Young
William Paul Young
Monsters
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I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.
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Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.
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We've created a theology in the West of a God who is fundamentally self-centered. The imagery of God as distant, unapproachable, unreachable -- that's not a God who is relational. It is a God that gets to declare or judge when he gets pissed off. But there is no basis for love and relationships if God is a fundamentally self-centered being.
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The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.
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Why would the God of the universe want to be submitted to me?' Because we want you to join us in our circle of relationship. I don't want slaves to my will I want brothers and sisters who will share life with me.
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So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.
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True love never forces.
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Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.
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I often find that getting head issues out of the way first makes the heart stuff easier to work on later.
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I am especially fond of you.
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I'm not an actual author but an accidental one.
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I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.
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City and country -- each has its own beauty and its own pain. Some of the smallness of small towns -- cattiness, everybody knowing everybody's business -- that can be challenging. And cities can be challenging, because no one can connect except electronically.
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I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.
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I am a verb. I am that I amNouns exist because there is a created universe and physical reality, but if the universe is only a mass of nouns, it is dead. Unless 'I am', there are no verbs, and verbs are what makes the universe alive
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Image and appearance tell you little. The inside is bigger than the outside when you have the eyes to see.
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I don't want my kids growing up with the image of God that I had -- Plato's white grandfatherly god -- because that god is not a very good father. When it comes down to it, you can't trust him with your kids.
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Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.
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I give you an ability to respond and your response is to be free to love and serve in every situation, and therefore each moment is different and unique and wonderful.
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Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.
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