#religion

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind. ↗

— Paul Bert

#leave #march #modern #morality #proportion

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#burning #demonic #get #heretics #need

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#explaining #fear #hope #ignorance #nature

Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after life. But now, we are witnessing a transformation, a true opium of the people is the belief in nothingness after death, the huge solace, the huge comfort of thinking that for our betrayals, our greed, our cowardice, our murders, we are not going to be judged. ↗

— Czesław Miłosz

#karl-marx #opium-of-the-people #religion #death

What science does not understand is called psychology, what psychology does not understand is called religion, what religion does not understand is called spirituality, what spirituality does not understand is called creation, what creation does not understand is called life, what life does not understand is called the death. There is nothing that the death does not understand—simply, it is an ultimate end of life. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#death #inspirational #life #life-lessons #religion

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#crusades #equality #goodness #openmindedness #religion

Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#bible #both #connection #god #i

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#act #better #hundred #obedience #one act

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building. ↗

— Bono

#elvis #enemy #god #happens #left

Religion is a personal matter between God and man, and that force plays no role in it ↗

— Mirza Masroor Ahmad

#religion