It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise. " This is not just a perverse … - Harvey Cox

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I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

Harvey Cox

It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise. " This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society.

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All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

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What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

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Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.

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"Religion" can no more be equated with what goes on in churches than "education" can be reduced to what happens in schools or "health care" restricted to what doctors do to patients in clinics. The vast majority of healing and learning goes on among parents and children and families and friends, far from the portals of any school or hospital. The same is true for religion. It is going on around us all the time. Religion is larger and more pervasive than churches.

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We now live in a 'post-Christian' America. The Judeo-Christian ethic no longer guides our social institutions. Christian ideals and values no longer dominate social thought and action. The Bible has ceased to be a common base of moral authority for judging whether something is right or wrong, good or bad, acceptable or unacceptable.

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