Letters From Timothy

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.

-Matthew 7:21

I think most people with religious beliefs have a crisis of faith at some point in their lives. I know I did. I think that one of the reasons that atheists and agnostics are so feared and mistrusted by religious people today is because they represent a struggle that they have tried so hard to win in their hearts. But this fear and mistrust creates a widening gap between the faithful and the faithless, and the end result is a sort of cultural war.

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