It Is Important To Know These Things So Religion Doesn't Do You More Harm Than Good

Blaise Pascal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal

"There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. 

The one who fears is not made perfect in love." 

1 John 4:18

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+4%3A18&version=MSG

Dorothy Day: “I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.”

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/dorothy-day-i-really-only-love-god-as.html

"You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image 

when it turns out God hates all the same people you do."
Fr. Tom Weston S. J.

"Martin Luther King Jr. On Hatred, Violence, Love and Jesus "The Way"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/11/martin-luther-king-jr-on-hatred.html

Pope Francis: What Christianity Looks Like When Believers Realize "God Is Love"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/pope-francis-what-happens-when-jesus-is.html

Love Covers A Multitude Of Sins

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/07/love-covers-multitude-of-sins.html

Yeshua Excoriates Fellow Pharisees: "The Woe Passages"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/08/yeshua-excoriates-fellow-pharisees-woe.html

"Twelve Steps For The Recovering Pharisee (Like Me)" By John Fischer
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/07/12-steps-for-recovering-pharisee-like.html

"Love Your Enemies. Do Good To Those Who Hate You," Luke 6: 27-42

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/love-your-enemies-do-good-to-those-who.html

"Do You Know What You're Doing To Me?"

Jesus of Nazareth

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/12/do-you-know-what-youre-doing-to-me.html

Jesus Walks Back Comments On Poor

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/09/jesus-walks-back-his-comments-on-poor.html

The Gospels With The Words Of Jesus In Red

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-gospels-with-words-of-jesus-in-red.html

Everything Jesus And The Apostles Had To Say About "The Rich" And "The Poor"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/10/everything-jesus-and-apostles-had-to_13.html

Pope Francis: "A Little Mercy Makes The World More Just"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/09/pope-francis-little-mercy-makes-world.html

Mercy Is Not Fair

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/04/mercy-is-not-fair.html

Which Do You Value More? Mercy? Or Justice?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/03/which-do-you-value-more-mercy-or-justice.html

What Too Many Christians Get Wrong

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/02/what-way-too-many-christians-get-wrong.html

“For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.”
James 2:13 

"But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

Matthew 9:13

"Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins."

1 Peter 4:8

"The Man Born Blind": Jesus Overturns The Core Supposition Of The Ancient World

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-man-born-blind-jesus-overturns-core.html

Hey Christian! How Many Of Jesus' Moral Stands Do You Approve? Take The Test!

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/12/how-many-of-jesus-moral-exhortations.html

Punishment Rarely Reforms But Instead Tends To Reinforce Wrongdoing

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/punishment-rarely-works-to-reform-but.html

GK Chesterton's Universalism

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/gk-chestertons-universalism-by-edward-t.html

G.K. Chesterton On Charity, Hope And Universal Salvation

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/chesterton-on-charity-and-universal.html

Jesus Rails Against Human Traditions Of "Our Great Leaders Who Lived Long Ago" 

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/08/jesus-rails-againt-human-traditions-of.html

What's Wrong With The Abrahamic Religions: Absolutism, Scriptural Inerrancy, Bloodlust

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/07/whats-wrong-with-abrahamic-religions.html

Pastor John Piper "discusses the vexing problem of God ordering the mass killing of every Canaanite man, woman, and child."

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/peterenns/2012/07/john-piper-on-why-its-right-for-god-to-slaughter-women-and-children-anytime-he-pleases-and-why-i-have-some-major-problems-with-that/

Mistakes In Scripture: When The Bible Gets The Bible Wrong

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/05/mistakes-in-scripture-when-bible-gets.html

"Is The Bible More Violent Than The Quran?"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/03/is-bible-more-violent-than-quran-npr.html

Worst Bible Passages

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/worst-bible-passages.html

"Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy," A Glimpse Of True Christianity
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/amish-grace-how-forgiveness-transcended.html

Biblical Literalism And The Cultivation Of Hatred

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/biblical-literalism-and-cultivation-of.html

"God Enjoys The 10 Plagues Way Too Much"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/god-enjoys-10-plagues-way-too-much.html

ISIS And The Inquisition: The Shadow Side Of Religion. Why Does Belief Do This?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/isis-and-inquisition-shadow-side-of.html

"What ISIS Really Wants" And How The Patriarch Abraham Appears To Be The Instigator

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants-and-how.html

Christianity's Bedrock Commitment To Torture: 
Remaking "The Faithful" In God's Image

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/christianitys-bedrock-commitment-to.html

Seldom Sermonized Bible Quotes

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/04/seldom-sermonized-bible-verses.html

"Christian Conservatism: "The Saved," "The Damned," "The Rich," "The Poor"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/01/christian-conservatism-saved-damned.html

"The Christian Paradox: How A Faithful Nations Gets Jesus Wrong"

Bill McKibben

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/06/bill-mckibben-christian-paradox-how.html

"Any Religion That Needs Fear To Thrive Is Bad Religion"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/any-religion-that-needs-fear-to-thrive.html

"Bad Religion: A Compendium"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/bad-religion-compendium.html

Good Religion And Bad Religion
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/bad-religion-and-good-religion.html

"Terrorism And The Other Religions"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/terrorism-and-other-religions-juan-cole.html

Time For Catholicism To "Shelve" Traditions And Texts That Represent God As A Terrorist
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/06/time-to-expunge-catholicism-of.html

Compendium Of Best Pax Posts On Religion

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/compendium-of-best-pax-posts-on-religion.html

Compendium Of Best Pax Posts On Christianity

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/compendium-of-best-pax-posts-on.html

Compendium Of Pax Posts: "The Seven Deadly Sins"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/03/compendium-of-pax-posts-on-seven-deadly.html

"Love Covers A Multitude Of Sins"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/07/love-covers-multitude-of-sins.html

"Are Highly Religious People Less Compassionate?"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/08/are-highly-religious-people-less.html

"Trial By Ordeal: The Bloody Old Testamental Roots Of Modern Justice"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/11/trial-by-ordeal-bloodthirsty-roots-of.html

"Trial By Ordeal: Alive And Well Into The 17th Century"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/trial-by-ordeal-alive-and-well-in-17th.html

Biblical Literalism: Not Only Impossible But Destructive Of Meaning And Souls

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/biblical-literalism-not-only-impossible.html

UNC-CH Professor Bart D. Ehrman:

Biblical Exegete And Former Christian Evangelical

The Bible and Textual Analysis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_D._Ehrman

Religion and Perfectionism

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/religion-and-perfectionism.html

Chesterton: The Meaning Of Love

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/chesterton-meaning-of-love.html

"Charity is the soul of faith, it gives it life; without love, faith dies."

St. Anthony of Padua

"Where love rules, there is no will to power, 
and where power predominates, love is lacking. 
The one is the shadow of the other." 
Carl Jung

"Love and do what you will."
St. Augustine

The Prodigal Son

Rembrandt

The "other" son in the background of the same painting:

The Parable Of The Prodigal Son

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Prodigal_Son