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    The Mad Hatter World of the Holy See & the Vatican
    The Mad Hatter World of the Holy See & the Vatican
    The Mad Hatter World of the Holy See & the Vatican
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    The Mad Hatter World of the Holy See & the Vatican

    By R. Paul Stevens

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    The Title says it all. And it is a pretty mad hatter world, a veritable Disneyland or even better, Alice in Wonderland.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR. Paul Stevens
    Release dateJan 10, 2013
    ISBN9781301320455
    The Mad Hatter World of the Holy See & the Vatican
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    R. Paul Stevens

    R. Paul Stevens is professor emeritus of marketplace theology and leadership at Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia, and a marketplace ministry mentor. He has worked as a carpenter and businessman, and served as the pastor of an inner-city church in Montreal. He has written many books and Bible studies, including Doing God's Business, Work Matters, Marriage Spirituality, The Other Six Days and Spiritual Gifts. He is coauthor (with Pete Hammond and Todd Svanoe) of The Marketplace Annotated Bibliography.

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      Look, whatever your religious beliefs are I respect them.

      I need to get that out of the way because you see, I am going to go into some things which are never really discussed or even examined and that may offend you. Me? Well, it is a bit confusing out there, religious wise, don’t you think? Do you know there are 730 different religions comprising 3200 sects? Suppose you are an undoctrinated young person who has just turned 21 and now you have all the rights of adulthood including a choice of religion. You realize that if you want to become religious you have a wide choice of what to believe in. But let’s say that only one religion is the truthful path of righteousness. This means your chance of worshipping the wrong God is no less than 99.86%. That’s pretty poor odds don’t you think? As for me, I am a confirmed atheist. I’ve looked around and haven’t found one single scrap of proof that God exists unless he is in the form of a superior civilization light years away in some remote planetary system. As for faith, well you might say I’m faithful but faithless. It’s sort of

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