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29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 1. Monotheistic Religion

1782	Stoics teach that God is a unity, variously known as Mind, or Fate, or Jupiter [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
	Full Idea: Stoics teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind, and Fate, and Jupiter, and by many names besides.
	From: report of Chrysippus (fragments/reports [c.240 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 07.Ze.68

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / a. Christianity

8102	We cannot speak against Christianity without anger, or speak for it without love [Joubert]
	Full Idea: We cannot speak against Christianity without anger, or speak for it without love.
	From: Joseph Joubert (Notebooks [1800], 1801)
	A reaction: This seems to be rather true at the present time, when a wave of anti-religious books is sweeping through our culture. Presumably this remark used to be true of ancient paganism, but it died away. Christianity, though, is very personal.