Richard Kurtenbach:
CLASS OF 1974
Public High SchoolClass of 1974
Parkston, SD
Richard's Story
Richard is from Dimock, South Dakota. Richard's schools include Public High School. Richard later attended South Dakota State University (Pre-Pysical Therapy) , Ohio Institute of Photography and Technology, Carousel College of Cosmotology (Hair Design) . Richard works(ed) at Nora's Design Group, Affinity Salon And Day Spa, Richard Garnett Hairdressing.
Music Richard likes includes Il Divo, The Ten Tenors, The Tenors. Books Richard likes include Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Girl Who Played With Fire, 12 Steps to a Compassionate Life. Movies Richard likes include Mrs. Miniver, Now, Voyager. TV shows Richard likes include Boston Legal, Sherlock, Downton Abbey.
One of Richard's favorite quotes is:""We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
The Declaration of Independence
"We're not free until everyone is free."
Martin Luther King
"When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him." Baynard Rustin
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Ghandi
"I have fought too hard and too long against discrimination based on race and color, not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation. I have heard the reasons for opposing civil marriage for same sex couples. Cut through the distractions, and they stink of the same fear, hatred and intolerance I have known in racism and in bigotry."
Congressman John Lewis of Alabama
"I define fundamentalism as the attempt to impose a single truth on a plural world."
Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
" What really lies behind fundamentalism is fear, a profound insecurity that makes you feel when you meet someone who doesn't like you or who doesn't agree with you that that challenges and threatens your very being. Aggression is always a sign of insecurity and insecurity is always at the bottom a lack of faith, not the presence of it."
Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth.
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"I define fundamentalism as militant piety" "It is only a small minority of fundamentalists who commit actions of terror, but even the most peaceful and law-abiding are perplexing, because they seem so adamantly opposed to many of the most positive values of modern society. Fundamentalists have no time for democracy, pluralism, religious tolerance, peacekeeping, free speech, or the separation of church and state. Christian fundamentalists reject the discoveries of biology and physics about the origins of life and insist that the Book of Genesis is scientifically sound in every detail."
Karen Armstrong, The Battle for God
"Fundamentalist Christians are those whose religious security is rooted in a literal Bible. They do not want that security disturbed. Fundamentalists are not happy when facts challenge their biblical understanding or when nuances in the text are introduced or when they are forced to deal with either contradictions or changing insights."
John Shelby Spong, Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism
"Fundamentalism is orthodoxy gone cultic. The mentality of fundamentalism is dominated by ideological thinking. Ideological thinking is rigid, intolerant, and doctrinaire; it sees principles everywhere, and all principles come in clear tones of black and white."
Edward John Carnell, The Case for Orthodoxy
"The evangelical approach to science is fairly simple: if scientists disagree with the Bible, the scientists are wrong." Patrick M. Chapman, Thou Shalt Not Love: What Evangelicals Really Say To Gays...And Why It Doesn't Make Sense
"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to, and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them." Frederick Douglass
"Institutional Christianity seems fearful of inquiry, fearful of freedom, fearful of knowledge--indeed, fearful of anything except its own repetitious propaganda, which has its origins in a world that none of us any longer inhabit. The church has historically been willing to criticize, marginalize, or even expel its most creative thinkers." John Shelby Spong
"You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." Anne Lamott
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one" John Lennon
"Do not do to others what you would not want done to you." Confusius".
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