Hans Kung Quotes
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Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
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I don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position.
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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.
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That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
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I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.
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We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
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I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
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The Gospel has to be the norm.