#religion

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. ↗

— Voltaire

#common #common sense #contrary #more #nothing

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion. ↗

— Alice Walker

#believe #buddhist #call #earth #enjoy

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power. ↗

— Alice Walker

#earth #forever #had #i #i think

Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#beings #divide #done #human #human beings

There's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur'an, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bhaghavad Gita, or of the Book of Mormon, or of the other sacred texts of many of those religions. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#book #many #misunderstand #mormon #other

One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.' ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#better #disbelieve #either #god #prejudiced

Islam is not the enemy. It is not synonymous with terror. Nor does Islam teach terror. America and its friends oppose a perversion of Islam, not the great world faith itself. Lives guided by religious faith, including literal beliefs in holy scriptures, are common to every religion, and represent no threat to us. ↗

— The

#religion #terorrism #faith

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#because #christ #christian #christian religion #christianity

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#become #becoming #code #even #found

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. ↗

— Alan Watts

#becomes #certain #clings #faith #fanatic