#eli

You know,” said Jehangir, breaking the silence, “it's only Muslims who use the term 'innovation' to mean something bad. ↗

— Michael Muhammad Knight

#extremism #fundamentalism #islam #religion #religion

He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him! ↗

— Arthur Miller

#religion #salem-witch-trials #the-crucible #religion

That’s what imperialism is all about, shoving your language, religion, culture, and race down others’ throats and telling them that they’re beneath you – and it’s not unique to the West either. ↗

— M.B. Wilmot

#colonialism #imperialism #racism #religion

nowhere in this universe does evil exist except in the mind of mankind. only man can take an idea or symbol which is so simple and innocent, and then twist it and corrupt it until it is something to hate or kill one another over. ↗

— Andrew James Pritchard

#hate #mankind #politics #religion #war

All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry "Help! ↗

— William James

#religion #religion

Les données scientifiques et ésotériques montrent l´importance du sommeil et des rêves dans la vie de l´individu. Il est aisé de comprendre pourquoi les rêves ont joué et jouent un rôle important pour guider les comportements de nombreuses civilisations anciennes. Il est aisé de comprendre, également, pourquoi des rites sont proposés avant l´endormissement par les religions ou sur le chemin de l´initiation (rétrospection, prières, méditations, exercices respiratoires, relaxation, etc...). Ils ont pour but de purifier les corps astral ou mental des substances grossières qui auraient pu les pénétrer au cours de la journée et d´orienter la conscience vers des plans vibratoires élevés de l´Univers. ↗

— Marie-France Bel

#sommeil #religion

This is where you first failed us. You gave us minds and told us not to think. You gave us curiosity and put a booby-trapped tree right in front of us. You gave us sex and told us not to do it. You played three-card monte with our souls from day one, and when we couldn't find the queen, you sent us to Hell to be tortured for eternity. That was your great plan for humanity? All you gave us here was daisies and fairy tales and you acted like that was enough. How were we supposed to resist evil when you didn't even tell us about it? ↗

— Richard Kadrey

#devil #evil #free-will #garden-of-eden #god

Your pain is not prescribed by your creator, He is the healer thus not giver of misery. We are victims of others; lay the blame where it belongs. Mankind is responsible for its environment and culture, the earth was in its purest form when Adam arrived (blessing on our first prophet) Culture created by man for power. The day we take responsibility for our actions, will be the day God walks through the door smiling ↗

— Zarina Bibi

#islamic #religion #responsibility #religion

Proof then, has retreated in the face of belief. Science, once heralded as the arbiter of truth, has had its facade of objectivity punctured. Intellectuals may point to the uncertainty of Heisenberg, but generally this has more to do with the growing distrust of statistics and the knowledge that scientists in the pay of governments and multi-nationals are no more objective than their masters. Science, once the avowed enemy of religion, now sees books BT Christian physicists and Taoist mathematicians. Science sells washing powders and status symbols and comes in the form of icons of technological nostalgia. ↗

— Phil Hine

#science #religion

It is when we stop believing that religions have been handed down from above or else that they are entirely daft that matters become more interesting. ↗

— Alain de Boton

#atheism #philosophy #religion #religion