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br.writeln("<center><B>Christian Quotation of the Day</B><BR><SMALL>Sunday, March 22, 2026</SMALL></center>");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:0in;text-indent:.2in\">To take the fact of evil seriously is to take the fact of morality seriously... I am unable to see how the fact of the moral consciousness, and, in particular, the fact of the opposition between &ldquo;is&rdquo; and &ldquo;ought,&rdquo; between desire and duty, can be explained in terms of purely <I>natural</I> causation... [They] can be explained only on the assumption that, in addition to the natural, there is also a non-natural order of the universe which is immanent in and on occasion intrudes actively into the natural.");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:.4in;text-indent:-.2in\">... <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndag.htm#Joad\">C. E. M. Joad</A> (1891-1953), <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndtq.htm#Recovery\"><I>The Recovery of Belief</I></A>, London: Faber and Faber, 1952, p. 76-78");
br.writeln("(see the <A target=_blank HREF=\"http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/506611\">book</A>; see also <A target=_blank HREF=http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gen.+3:2-6;+Josh.+7:20-21;+Jer.+14:13-14;+Acts+26:27;+2+Cor.+11:13-15>Gen. 3:2-6; Josh. 7:20-21; Jer. 14:13-14; Acts 26:27; 2 Cor. 11:13-15</A>; more at <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub1.htm#Duty\">Duty</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub2.htm#Evil\">Evil</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub3.htm#Morality\">Morality</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub3.htm#Nature\">Nature</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub4.htm#Sin\">Sin</A>)");
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