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[On Jason Mashak's book SALTY AS A LIP, as reviewed in The Prague Post:] Mashak amalgamates various national, historical and religious traditions into a myth-mash that illuminates many sects' fanatical compartmentalizing, and the fact that so many religions and philosophies share similar goals, if not roots. ↗

— Stephan Delbos

#myth #philosophy #poetry #religion #religion

The universe is God's son. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#god #god-s-son #literature #philosophy #poetry

The more rigid and exclusive one makes the border between philosophy and theology, the more that distinction itself has to fall on the side of theology, and the more inaccessible that very distinction becomes to philosophy ↗

— Gregory B. Sadler

#christian-philosophy #distinctions #intellectual-life #philosophy #religion

It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about. ↗

— Criss Jami

#arguments #bigot #bigotry #bigots #certainty

For biblical truth to be true, it must agree with all other biblical truth. ↗

— Reid A. Ashbaucher

#made-in-the-image-of-god #philosophy #philosophy-of-religion #reid-ashbaucher #religion

The greatest skeptic must now admit that the land and sea-borne trade of India had given her a world-wide fame not only for her gold, spices and silk, but for her religions and philosophies also. ↗

— Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

#india #indian-philsophers #philosophy #religions #virchand-gandhi

There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis, by a pretence of its dangerous consequences to religion and morality. When any opinion leads to absurdities, it is certainly false; but it is not certain that an opinion is false, because it is of danger-ous consequence. Such topics, therefore, ought entirely to be forborne; as serving nothing to the discovery of truth, but only to make the person of an antagonist odious. ↗

— David Hume

#reason #religion #religion

They don’t understand that religion and science are there to serve different purposes. We need science to understand how everything on this planet and beyond works – us, nature, everything we see around us. That’s fact – no one with a working brain can question that. But we also need religion. Not for ridiculous counter-theories about things that science can prove. We need it for something else, to fill a different kind of need. The need for meaning. It’s a basic need we have, as humans. And it’s a need that’s beyond the realm of science. Your scientists don’t understand that it’s a need they can’t fulfill no matter how many Hadron colliders and Hubble telescopes they build- and your preachers don’[t understand that their job is to help you discover a personal, inner sense of meaning and not behave like a bunch of zealots intent on converting the rest of the planet to their rigid, literalist view of how everyone should live their lives. ↗

— Raymond Khoury

#philosophy #raymond-khoury #religion #science-and-religion #nature

Sin is a gravitation. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#religion #sin #religion

Have a religion but don't let religion have you! Befriend God because you wanted to, not because they have said it to you. ↗

— Janina Lea Dela Peña

#religion-meaning #religion-philosophy #religion