Arnold Lunn Quotes

Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn was a skier, mountaineer and writer. He was knighted for "services to British Skiing and Anglo-Swiss relations" in 1952. His father was a lay Methodist minister, but Lunn was an agnostic and wrote critically about Catholicism before he converted to Catholicism at the age of 45 and became a Catholic apologist.

He was born in Madras, India and died in London aged 86. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. April 1888 – 2. June 1974
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Arnold Lunn Quotes

“The modern theory that you should always treat the religious convictions of other people with profound respect finds no support in the Gospels. Mutual tolerance of religious views is the product not of faith, but of doubt.”

Now I See http://books.google.com/books?id=fEXZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+modern+theory+that+you+should+always+treat+the+religious+convictions+of+other+people+with+profound+respect+finds+no+support+in+the+Gospels+Mutual+tolerance+of+religious+views+is+the+product+not+of+faith+but+of+doubt%22&pg=PA101#v=onepage (1933)

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