#eli

Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried. ↗

— Sam Harris

#provocative #religion #worry #religion

Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold.' It is astonishing, moreover, how many people are unable to understand that 'X is comforting' does not imply 'X is true'. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#religion

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way. ↗

— Martin Buber

#man #religion #religion

You believe in God?" demanded Billy Karma. "I believe in thirty-seven separate and distinct gods," answered Argyle proudly. "That puts me thirty-six ahead of you." "It makes you a pagan." "It makes you a man of limited vision," said Argyle. ↗

— Mike Resnick

#religion

In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him. ↗

— Jethro Tull

#atheist #religion #religion

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise. ↗

— James Madison

#religion

The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there is nothing left to want. I think that what the Buddha may have been trying to tell us is that we have it all, each of us, all the time; therefore, desire is simply unnecessary. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#desire #religion #religion

أخرج الله سبحانه الأبوين من الجنة بذنب واحد ارتكباه, وخالفا فيه نهيه. ولعن إبليس, وطرده, وأخرجه من ملكوت السماء بذنب ارتكبه, وخالف فيه أمره. ونحن معاشر الحمقى_ كما قيل_ : نصل الذنوب إلى الذنوب ونرتجي** درك الجنان لدى النعيم الخالد .. ولقد علمنا أخرج الأبوين من** ملكوتها الأعلى بذنب واحد ↗

— ابن قيم الجوزية

#religion

Hell is truth known too late. ↗

— J.C. Ryle

#knowledge #truth #religion

تذكر حلاوة الوصال يهن عليك مر المجاهدة ↗

— ابن قيم الجوزية

#مجاهدة #religion