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Happy is the people that is without history. And thrice is the people without sociology. ↗


— Christopher Henry Dawson


#history #sociology #religion

the mystic must be steadily told,—All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,—universal signs, instead of these village symbols,—and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language. ↗


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#mysticism #religion #symbol #religion

I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don't think it does. ↗


— Andy Rooney


#meanness #niceness #religion #religion

There are certain verses in the Quran which convey injunctions similar to the following: 'Kill them wherever you find them.' (2:191) Referring to such verses, there are some who attempt to give the impression that Islam is a religion of war and violence. This is total untrue. Such verses relate in a restricted sense, to those who have unilaterally attacked the Muslims. The above verse does not convey the general command of Islam. (pp. 42-43) ↗


— Maulana Wahiduddin Khan


#quran #violence #war #religion

If that were God's plan, it's a bad bargain; I don't want to have to deal with a God like that...My sense is God and I came to an accommodation with each other a couple of decades ago, where he's gotten used to the things that I'm not capable of and I've come to terms with things he's not capable of...and we care very much about each other. ↗


— Harold S. Kushner


#god-s-plans #god-s-will #omnipotence #religion #religion

How do you know it's not true if you don't believe in it? ↗


— Pete Hautman


#religion #religion

He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it. ↗


— Michael Crichton


#religion

Who knows for certain? Who shall here declare it? Whence was it born, whence came creation? The gods are later than this world's formation; Who then can know the origins of the world? None knows whence creation arose; And whether he has or has not made it; He who surveys it from the lofty skies. Only he knows- or perhaps he knows not. ↗


— Anonymous


#agnosticism #ancient #hinduism #religion #religion

...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce. ↗


— Tad Williams


#dystopia #future #religion

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry. ↗


— Robert Charles Wilson


#religion #religion






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