#religion

Y la madre creyó a la serpiente, porque en todas las religiones de los hombres la serpiente conoce el misterio de las vidas que pueblan los mundos. ↗

— Horacio Quiroga

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When I finally applied logic to Religion that was when I quit paying after life insurance and quit going ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#atheism #atheist #religion #tithing #religion

Essentially, almost all humans are born with a fear of the unknown. It casts a pall of anxiety which pushes us into the arms of religions and soothsayers and their made-up answers. ↗

— Mario Stinger

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You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true. ↗

— Eugene H. Peterson

#empty-words #matthew #religion #religious #religion

There is no problem with the wider culture that you cannot see in the spades in the Christian Church. The rot is in us, and not simple out there. And Christians are making a great mistake by turning everything into culture wars. It's a much deeper crisis. ↗

— Os Guinness

#culture #deep #problems #religion #religion

I had never been into society; for me the world was the enclosure of the college and the seminary. I had a vague knowledge that there was a something called woman, but I never dwelt upon the subject; I was absolutely innocent. I saw my infirm old mother only twice a year; that was the extent of my connection with the outside world. ↗

— Théophile Gautier

#religion #vows #women #religion

All what we think and know is an illusion. Nothing exists. Everything is an opinion. ↗

— Ash Vaz

#god #religion #science #space-and-cosmos #religion

God does not bring two people together for the benefit of just one ↗

— Rosemary West

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One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#dogma #heresy #labels #orthodoxy #religion

Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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