I wonder if anyone who needs a snappy song service can real… - Reinhold Niebuhr

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I wonder if anyone who needs a snappy song service can really appreciate the meaning of the cross.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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About Reinhold Niebuhr

Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (21 June 1892 – 1 June 1971) was an American Protestant theologian most famous for his efforts to relate the Christian faith to the realities of politics and diplomacy. He is a crucial contributor to modern thinking about what a just war would be.

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Native Name: Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr

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...until the fear of catastrophe amends, or catastrophe itself destroys...

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life. Reason may extend and stabilise, but it does not create, the capacity to affirm other life than his own.

Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.

I wonder if anyone who needs a snappy song service can really appreciate the meaning of the cross. - Reinhold Niebuhr

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