#organize

Theology is ignorance with wings. ↗

— Sam Harris

#organized-religion #reason #religion #religion

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

#religion #religion

The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it. ↗

— Rob Bell

#atheism #ideas #organized-religion #religion #religion

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#organized-religion #paradox #religion #hope

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#danger #law #organized-religion #power #religion

It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth. ↗

— David Brock

#democracy #firsthand #how #i #indeed

But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party. ↗

— Earl Browder

#change #coats #consequently #did #efforts

Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#black #black community #community #decide #everybody

You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#got #organize #stop #you #yourselves

I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male. ↗

— Julia Child

#be true #because #benevolent #female #generation