#religion

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion. ↗

— Mary Douglas

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I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#does #felt #good #harm #i

The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#catholics #contrast #cultural #directly #general

I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside. ↗

— Billy Eckstine

#firm #firm believer #i #i think #inside

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#even #experience #fear #mixed #mystery

A life without an objective is much like a ship at sea with no port in mind. It drifts with the waves or storms, or with the whim of the captain. They are tempted to ask, amidst the battles of life, "Is the struggle worth-while?" That attitude lessens the joy of living. They who say that there is no purpose in life are not unhappy, but become dangerous to themselves and others, for they have no safe guide for their actions. Indeed, life has not objective save physical satisfactions, it is empty and valueless. ↗

— John Andreas Widtsoe

#religion #attitude

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted. ↗

— Luke Ford

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I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians. ↗

— Luke Ford

#christians #did #good #good people #i

Organized religion is the school of hate, and never more exultant in its righteous indignation than when it talks about gay and lesbian. In America the unholy alliance between the know-nothing fundamentalists and the Catholic hierarchy keeps the faithful whipped up to a frenzy of witch-hunting and fag-bashing. ↗

— Paul Monette

#glbt #hate #homophobia #religion #faith

Folks, the message of Christ is simple. It's not heady, or high-minded, or supremely intellectual at all. It is simple on purpose. It is simple enough to be understood by every person. ↗

— Curtis A. Chamberlain

#faith