#men

Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#fundamentalism #religion #religion

Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#religion

People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#evil #fanaticism #fundamentalism #religion #religion

When asked why I don't believe in God I reply, quite simply, "vaginas". ↗

— Robert Clark

#humour #religion #women #religion

Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into the wilderness to find God; of course they took God with them, and the silence and detachment enabled them to hear the still, small voice of their own souls, as one hears the ticking of his own watch in the stillness of the night. ↗

— John Burroughs

#god #nature #religion #solitude #spirituality

Men are made for happiness, and he who is completely happy has the right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#religion #men

Woman is the light of God. ↗

— Rumi

#persian #persian-poetry #religion #rumi #rumi-poetry

Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used to say," said Brutha automatically. "Indeed? I would like to know more about this formidable lady." "She used to give me a thrashing every morning because I would certainly do something to deserve it during the day," said Brutha. "A most complete understanding of the nature of mankind, ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#punishment #religion #nature

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#church #government #governments #religion #religion

It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#holocaust #jewish #jewish-tradition #jews #men