#eli

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#atheism #philosophy #religion #religion

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#religion #understanding #religion

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#charity #dogs #generosity #hypocrisy #pets

What has he found who has lost God? And what has he lost who has found God? ↗

— Ibn 'Ata' Allah Al-Iskandari

#religion #spirituality #sufism #religion

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. ↗

— Émile Zola

#civilization #organized-religion #religion #religion

Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins? ↗

— Frank Zappa

#religion

Nothing optional—from homosexuality to adultery—is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishments) have a repressed desire to participate. As Shakespeare put it in King Lear, the policeman who lashes the whore has a hot need to use her for the very offense for which he plies the lash. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#closeted #homosexuality #hypocrisy #prohibition #religion

There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion. ↗

— J.I. Packer

#self-centeredness #religion

To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#organized-religion #religion #religion

If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#god #religion #religion