#eol

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#explain #knowing #terms #theology #unknowable

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#centuries #explaining #terms #theologians #unknowable

We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#corruption #country #court #devoid #establish

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#discard #durable #enough #generates #ideology

Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies. ↗

— Evo Morales

#any #basis #culture #dialogue #ideological

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#dictated #signed #theology #universe

Geologists don't do that! We go out in the field and observe, and then we can try to make a model with computerization; but it's not the first thing. ↗

— Nils-Axel Morner

#first #first thing #geologists #go #make

The non-comic, factual explanation is that I felt there was a myth about terrorist bombers being medieval-minded, 'fundamentalist, primitivist' people. There seems to be a lot of evidence to contradict that, especially in Britain. Some of the ideology behind what has become modern jihadism was socially progressive, certainly in Egypt, for example. ↗

— Chris Morris

#become #behind #being #bombers #britain

As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing. ↗

— Johann Most

#assumes #conclusions #forth #god #idea

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#born #georgia #having #king #reared