English - Clergyman | October 2, 1921 - July 11, 2000
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
Robert Runcie
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War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.
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Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.
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I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people.
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Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitler's passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed.
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