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I should say that there ought to be no war except religious war. If war is irreligious, it is immoral. No man ought ever to fight at all unless he is prepared to put his quarrel before that invisible Court of Arbitration with which all religion is concerned. Unless he thinks he is vitally, eternally, cosmically in the right, he is wrong to fire off a pocket-pistol. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#god #morality #religion #war #religion

Most Religions are Social Clubs with expensive Entertainment Cheap Wine and Stale Crackers ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

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Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government? ↗

— Frank Herbert

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إذا كان تفكيك التجربة التاريخية للإسلام يتكشَّف عن أن السياسي لم يستقل بمجال اشتغال خاص عن الديني؛ وإلى حد ما لاحظ ابن خلدون من "أن العرب لا يحصل لهم الملك إلا بصبغة دينية من نبوة أو ولاية، أو أثر عظيم من الدين على الجملة"، وبما يعنيه ذلك من أن المُلك السياسي للعرب قد راح ينبني داخل الديني ويتجذَّر في قلبه منذ لحظة التأسيس المبكرة الأولى؛ فإن أهم ما يترتب على ذلك هو ما يبدو من تصور المرء أنه يسلك بحسب ضرورات "الديني" وفروضه، فيما هو يسلك حقاً تبعاً لقواعد "السياسي" المتقنِّع بالديني والمتخفِّي في قلبه. وهنا تكمن المعضلة التى تتعصى على الانفراج في عالم الإسلام؛ وأعني معضلة التمييز بين الديني والسياسي، والتي تتأتى ابتداء من عدم اختصاص الواحد منهما بمجال خاص يشتغل داخل حدوده، وذلك على العكس من اختصاص كل منهما بمجال يخصه في عالم المسيحية؛ الأمر الذي جعل، لا مجرد التمييز، بل الفصل بينهما ممكناً ↗

— علي مبروك

#politics #religion

Agama itu gampang banget disisipi pesan-pesan politis dan budaya buat motong biaya propaganda. ↗

— Sammaria

#politics #politik #religion #religion

Religious guilt causes people to deny their behavior even as they engage in it. Guilt short-circuits rational examination of behavior in favor of supernatural notions like "evil" and "the temptation of Satan. ↗

— Darrel Ray

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Religious toleration, to a certain extent, has been won, because people have ceased to consider religion so important as it was once thought to be. But in politics and economics, which have taken the place formerly occupied by religion, there is a growing tendency to persecution, which is not by any means confined to one party. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#persecution #politics #power #religion

Throughout Mesoamerica it was a common belief that a dog carried the soul of a newly deceased person across a body of water. According to the Aztecs, the first level of the Underworld was a place called Apanoayan (where one crosses the river) or Itzcuintlan (the Place of Dogs). ↗

— Elizabeth Eiler

#dogs #religion-spirituality #religion

My religious beliefs also defied convention, leaning towards agnosticism and pandeism. ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#deism #pandeism #pantheism #religion #spirituality

Mysteries are the evidence to errors in our religious and historical precepts. ↗

— Matthew A. Petti

#book-of-revelation #great-pyramid #greek-gods #religion-and-science #religion-philosophy