#eli

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education. ↗

— Josh Lanyon

#josh-lanyon #religion #religious-faith #satanism #the-hell-you-say

What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. ↗

— Thomas Henry Huxley

#faith #religion #science #skepticism #faith

By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#ethics #religion #students #education

It is notorious that the news of the Emancipation Proclamation was kept from the people of Texas and not celebrated until 'Juneteenth'. There may be those in Texas now who believe they can insulate their state—a state that had its own courageous revolution—from the news of evolution and from the writing in 1786 of a Constitution that refuses to mention religion except when demarcating and limiting its role in the public square. But we promise them today that they will join their fore-runners in the flat-earth community, and in the mad clerical clique of those who believed that the sun revolved around the earth. Yes, they will be in schoolbooks—as a joke on the epic scale of William Jennings Bryan. We shall be fair, and take care to ensure that their tale is told. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#education #religion #texas #united-states #william-jennings-bryan

It was during my study in Israel that I came to the realization that most of what I had learned in my courses in religion in the United States was outdated or in error. In order to understand what the biblical position is on any subject and, particularly on the subject of sex, one has to do it from a Hebrew perspective. ↗

— Roy B. Blizzard

#gender-studies #marriage-counseling #relationship-advice #religion #religion-christianity

* Be ready for rainy-day emergencies * Avoid excessive debt; be content with what we have * Use the resources of the earth wisely; don´t be wasteful * Prepare for the future by making spending and savings plans * Keep a family or personal budget * Teach children wise spending habits and help them save for the future * Obtain an education or vocational training * Find gainful employment As we become self-reliant, we will be prepared to face challenges with confidence and peace of mind. ↗

— Robert D. Hales

#education

The existence of guilty sense is so important in education and religion. ↗

— Toba Beta

#guilt #guilty-sense #religion #sense #education

The problem with the evangelical homeschool movement was not their desire to educate their children at home, or in private religious schools, but the evangelical impulse to "protect" children from ideas that might lead them to "question" and to keep them cloistered in what amounted to a series of one-family gated communities. Frank Schaeffer ↗

— Frank Schaeffer

#critical-thinking #evangelical #free-thought #homeschool #religious-right

There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#religion #spirituality #experience

The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God. ↗

— Hubert Van Zeller

#god #inspirational #life #loneliness #patience