#if

So they crucified their Messiah? Well can I believe it. That He was a Son of the Living Spirit would be naught to them, if indeed He was so.... They would care little for any God if he came not with pomp and power. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#crucifixion #god #hatred #jesus #poor-people

Could a being create the fifty billion galaxies each with two hundred billion stars then rejoice in the smell of burning goat flesh? ↗

— Ron Patterson

#christianity #god #religion #religion

The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#difference #individuality #isolation #suicide #individuality

In ancient times people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everybody in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing other half. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #love #religion #theory #life

When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the slightest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinions for or against anything. To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind. ↗

— Hsin Hsin Ming

#christianity #hate #life #living #love

The Prophet's character was termed tremendous because his concern was for God alone. ↗

— Imam Junayd al-Baghdadi

#islam #prophet-muhammad #prophetic-gift #religion #tasawwuf

The crucifixion should never be depicted. It is a horror to be veiled. ↗

— William Golding

#crucifixion #religion #religion

Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? ... No other human institution comes close. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#reason #science #science-vs-religion #scientific-method #sense-of-wonder

When I finally applied logic to Religion that was when I quit paying after life insurance and quit going ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#atheism #atheist #religion #tithing #religion

...I take the view that God, in his infinite wisdom, didn't bother to spring for two joints - heaven and hell. They're the same place, but heaven is when you get everything you want and you meet Mommy and Daddy and your best friends and you all have a hug and a kiss and play your harps. Hell is the same place - no fire and brimstone - but they just all pass by and don't see you. There's nothing, no recognition. You're waving, "It's me, your father," but you're invisible. You're on a cloud, you've got your harp, but you can't play with nobody because they don't see you. That's hell. ↗

— Keith Richards

#life