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What a mess the world was in, Vimes reflected. Constable Visit had told him the meek would inherit it, and what had the poor devils done to deserve that? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#inherit #meek #religion #religion

Within the Nation, he [Malcolm] explained that his purpose was to present the views of Elijah Muhammad and to challenge distortions about their religion. In fact, his objectives were to turn upside down the standard racial dialectic of black subordination and white supremacy, and to show off his rhetorical skill at the expense of white authorities and Negro integrationists (185). ↗

— Manning Marable

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You were the one who threatened us with an Inquisitor," the Bishop reminded him. With a smile. The Speaker's smile was just as chilly. "And you're the one who told the people I was Satan and they shouldn't talk to me. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics from philosophy. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#philosophy #religion #science #religion

You are clever man, friend John; you reason well, and your wit is bold; but you are too prejudiced. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men’s eyes, because they know – or think they know – some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. But yet we see around us every day the growth of new beliefs, which think themselves new; and which are yet but the old, which pretend to be young – like the fine ladies at the opera. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#science-and-religion #skepticism #men

Look!" Hawkeye said. Duke looked where Hawkeye was pointing. In one corner, kneeling on the dirt floor with his elbows on his cot, a Bible in front of him, his lips moving slowly, and oblivious to all about him, was Major Jonathan Hobson. "Jesus," Hawkeye said. "It don't look like Him," Duke said. ↗

— Richard Hooker

#humour #religion #religion

Human body is the only way for manifestation of God There is but one law or fundamental rule and that is the manifestation of God in the human body. It does not know any distinction of caste and creed, any time or place; all that is indispensably required is the human body and God’s mercy, The ‘only way’ of God’s manifestation in the highest form is through the body of a man and this is the ‘only law’ of highest expression in the world. There is but only one way and there is but one fundamental rule – the highest manifestation of God is in the human body. The principal requirement for God’s manifestation is the human body. Let him be a Hindu or Buddist or Christian or Muslim or let him belong to any other religion of the world or let him live in any part of the world, if God (Atma) takes pity on him then He will manifest Himself in the body of the man and the man on his part will see God in his own body. This law is fundamental. God is in the body. He is in an invisible and unattached condition. He emanates from the body, manifests himself in full-fledged form in the cerebrum, when God-the-Preceptor points out and shows God and himself melts away in God. The seer understands it distinctly that God is in the body and He has sprang up from the body. ↗

— Sri Jibankrishna

#god #human #only #place #religion

Christians rejected the need for proof to support belief in God, yet dismissed proof altogether when it was there. ↗

— Kira Peikoff

#sarcastic-humor #religion

[Über das Paradies:] Die fünf Bücher Mose, die Genesis und der Koran beschäftigen sich eingehend mit dieser hysterischen Geographie. Die muslimische Variante ist jedoch am gelungensten und lohnt wirklich die Lektüre: Bäche, Gärten, Flüsse, Quellen, Blumenbeete, jede Menge Früchte und wunderbare Getränke, großäugige Houris, allzeit jungfräulich, liebenswürdige junge Menschen, Betten im Überfluß, prächtige Kleider, wunderbare Stoffe, außergewöhnlicher Schmuck, Gold, Perlen, Parfums, kostbares Geschirr ... es fehlt nichts in diesem Werbeprospekt des ontologischen Fremdenverkehrsamtes. ↗

— Michel Onfray

#paradise #religion #religion

This country has done much, I wish it may do more, and annul every narrow idea in religion, government, and commerce. ↗

— John Adams

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