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The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive. ↗

— Sam Harris

#god #religion #religion

The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#behavior #bible #civilization #describes #god

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#knowledge #organized-religion #sin #truth #religion

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion. ↗

— Jim Morrison

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For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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A need for approval lies behind all efforts of evangelism. If someone else can be convinced, that will show us that we are on the right path. The attempt to convince someone of anything is a mark of insecurity. (173) ↗

— Ravi Ravindra

#evangelism #insecurity #right-path #yoga

Whoever treads a path seeking knowledge, Allah will make easy for him the path to Paradise." (reported by Ibn Majah and others, fulfilling the conditions of Imam al Bukhari and Imam Muslim) ↗

— Prophet Muhammad S.A.W

#knowledge #paradise #religion #religion

But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed? ↗

— John Adams

#christianity #fables #legends #religion #religion

It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found it plain perhaps, proceeded to temper his cup with the salt of doubt so that his thirst now becomes insatiable though he drinks incessantly, and that in thus drinking the water that cannot slake his thirst, he has forgotten the original and true purpose for which the water was sought. ↗

— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

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