#ow

The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go ↗

#chambers #dark #deschain #gunslinger #jake

It is surprising to me that one of the great crimes of history has gone unnoticed; the abduction of god by religions. This slight-of-hand has been the cause of countless blood-shed and has been found at the root of innumerable acts of evil. The argument continues today, as to which religion the true god belongs, when what would be most healing and empowering is to free god from the shackles of religious limitation and judgment. It is by emancipating god from the ignorance of our ancestors that we become empowered to explore and express our own relationship with what god may or may not be. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#empowered #god #history #relationship #religion

Religion ist nichts anderes als die Lehre davon, wie man frei von Erkenntnis gehorcht [...]. ↗

— Juli Zeh

#religion #responsibility #religion

Bah, he still saw the same stupidity. The image of the hanged man in the farming community of Yondern flashed through his mind. Now there was a war brewing between the Steelwielders and some foreign religion. More mindless loss over beliefs and mythology. But.. he could not deny the noble features in his companions. Although Perfidian was too blithe and Elaina too didactic, they had risked their life to do what was right. He did owe them his life. He could not deny the nobility he saw in many different people, bits and pieces of nobility that shined through under pressure. The guards who risked their lives to protect the villagers, Markham who flew at the dangerous dwarf, swords flashing; even an Eruthian merchant who stopped in his journey to share tales with complete strangers'. ↗

— T.P. Grish

#fantasy #indie-author #low-magic #magick-and-faith #mythology

Religious toleration, to a certain extent, has been won, because people have ceased to consider religion so important as it was once thought to be. But in politics and economics, which have taken the place formerly occupied by religion, there is a growing tendency to persecution, which is not by any means confined to one party. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#persecution #politics #power #religion

I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#doctrine #narrow-mindedness #orthodoxy #prophecies #religion

But religions are only temporarily successful attempts to cope with the lack of meaning in life; they are not permanent answers. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#p- #religion

This ain't my first rodeo!". ~R. Alan Woods [1999] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#abuse-of-power #abuse-of-religion #church #pastors #r-alan-woods

There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him; but if he does, superstition perches near. ↗

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

#superstition #unknown #unseen #religion

The best ‘apologia’ (defense) of Jesus Following is your life ...not talking religion!” http://diigo.com/0odk2 ~ gfp '42© ↗