It's wonderful how, the moment you talk about God and love, your voice becomes hard, and your eyes fill with hatred. No, Margret, you certainly haven't the true faith.
Interpretation
The quote reflects the paradox of love and faith, suggesting that genuine belief shouldn't lead to intolerance or aggression.
August Strindberg's quote highlights the conflict that can arise between professed faith in God and the emotions of hatred and aggression that sometimes accompany discussions about love and spirituality. It challenges the notion that true faith should inspire kindness and compassion, rather than evoking hostility, indicating a disconnect between one's proclaimed beliefs and their emotional responses.
In practice
This quote can be used in discussions or debates about the true nature of faith and its implications on human behavior.
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That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.
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Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.
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