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If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

BBC Radio 4 - 18 November 2007.

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God is clearly not a Christian. His concern is for all his children.

God Is Not A Christian: And Other Provocations, with John Allen - 2011

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It has destabilised and polarised the world to a greater extent than any other conflict in history.

John Carlin - 12 November 2006. "Former aide John Allen’s authorised biography offers an intimate view of Desmond Tutu". The Observer - UK.

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People of religion have no choice in the matter. Where there is injustice and oppression, where people are treated as if they were less than who they are – those created in the image of God – you have no choice but to oppose, and to oppose vehemently and oppose with all the force that you have in your being, that injustice and oppression.

God Is Not A Christian: And Other Provocations, with John Allen - 2011.

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Homophobia is a 'crime against humanity' and 'every bit as unjust' as apartheid. We struggled against apartheid in South Africa, supported by people the world over, because black people were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about; our very skins... It is the same with sexual orientation. It is a given.

BBC Radio 4 - 18 November 2007.

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The words attributed to Manning reveal that he went through a profound moral struggle between the time he enlisted and when he became a whistleblower. Through his experience in Iraq, he became disturbed by top-level policy that undervalued human life and caused the suffering of innocent civilians and soldiers. Like other courageous whistleblowers, he was driven foremost by a desire to reveal the truth" and, "The military prosecution has not presented evidence that Private Manning injured anyone by releasing secret documents... Nor has the prosecution denied that his motivations were conscientious;

Nobel Laureates Salute Bradley Manning - The Nation - December 3, 2012.

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To claim God exclusively for Christians is to make God too small and in a real sense is blasphemous. God is bigger than Christianity and cares for more than Christians only.

God Is Not A Christian: And Other Provocations, with John Allen - 2011.

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And you have to remember that religion is of itself neither good nor bad. Religion is a morally neutral thing. It is what you do with it. It is like a knife, a knife is good when you use it for cutting up bread for sandwiches. A knife is bad when you stick it in somebody’s gut. Religion is good when it produces a Dalai Lama,, a Martin Luther King. We’ve got to say, what does your faith make you do? Make you become?

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But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

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When the white missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

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