#religion

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#birthplace #come #desperate #himself #identity

Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#believes #best #counterproductive #demands #economics

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#communism #largely #like #made #other

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#eternal #exclusive #indispensable #judaism #religion

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#legislation #one thing #religion #revealed #thing

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#necessary #physical #power #religion #state

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. ↗

— James A. Michener

#better #customs #fear #food #home

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#religion #theology #religion

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. ↗

— Bill Gates

#could #doing #efficient #i #just

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#established #firmly #francis #i #monarchy