"I thought that coming out was going to be the end of my religious life but actually it was the beginning. Because it only afterwards that I could be honest about who I was, what I wanted, how I understood spirituality."

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Source : "Interview: Jay Michaelson, Author Of God Vs. Gay? The Religious Case For Equality". BYT Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. October 21, 2011.

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“Punk rock was the first thing I found in my life that made me feel acceptable. The thing that got me into punk rock was the idea, "You're fine just the way you are." It sounds kind of dorky, but you don't have to make excuses for who you are or what you do. When you find something like punk rock, not only is it okay to feel that way - you should embrace your weirdness. The world is totally messed up, and punk rock was a way to see that and work with it without candy-coating it. It was saying, "Yeah, the world is this way, but you can still do something about it. Take energy from that."”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling.”
“If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending; if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained - we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms, and to the God of hosts, is all that is left us.”
“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”
“I think design does evolve in a meaningful sense. I think if you look at design as a part of the continuum of communication, since even before Guttenberg.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.
“Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.”
“Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely, merely more desirable (many people cannot tell the difference)”
“Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they donâ€™t believe in, we quickly discover that I donâ€™t believe in that god, either.”

Source : Rob Bell (2011). “Love Wins: At the Heart of Life’s Big Questions”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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