#nat

The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us. ↗

— Richard Wright

#american #native-son #race #religion #us

I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what one might call rather the psychological, inward import, of the world of nature round about us, as understood today. There's no real conflict between science and religion ... What is in conflict is the science of 2000 BC ... and the science of the 20th century AD. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#conflict #jeremy-mishlove #joseph-campbell #myth #nature

Before creation I alone was, there was no other existence of the nature of cause and effect different from Me. After the creative cycle ends also, I alone exist. For, this universe is also Myself, and when everything is dissolved in its cause in Pralaya, what remains is only Myself. ↗

— Veda Vyasa

#nature

Religious discrimination is not like racial discrimination. One you choose for yourself, the other God chose for you. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#god #racism #religion #religion

Religious laws, in all the major religious traditions, have both a letter and a spirit. As I understand the words and example of Jesus, the spirit of the law is all-important whereas the letter, while useful… becomes lifeless and deadly without it. In accord with this distinction a yearning to worship on wilderness ridges or beside rivers rather than in churches could legitimately be called evangelical… if your words or deeds harmonize with the example of Jesus, you are evangelical in spirit whether you claim to be or not. When the non-Christian Ambrose Bierce wrote, “War is the means by which Americans learn geography,” his words are aimed at the same antiwar end as “Blessed are the peacemakers. ↗

— David James Duncan

#nature #religion #spirituality #nature

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new. ↗

— Epictetus

#reincarnation #religion #religion

In silence alone does a man's truth bind itself together and strike root. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#man #religion #silence #spirituality #truth

Islam's middle position can be recognized by the fact that Islam has always been attacked from the two opposite directions: from the side of religion, that is too natural, actual, and tuned to the world; and from the side of science that it contains religious and mystical elements. There is only one Islam, but like man, it has both soul and body. ↗

— Alija Izetbegović

#nature

If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking the world isn't an option. ↗

— P.Z. Myers

#observation #reason #religion #science #nature

For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succession to St. Peter, their whole hierarchy, or kingdom of darkness, may be compared not unfitly to the kingdom of fairies; that is, to the old wives' fables in England concerning ghosts and spirits, and the feats they play in the night. And if a man consider the original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: for so did the papacy start up on a sudden out of the ruins of that heathen power. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#belief #catholic-church #fairies #heathen #materialism