#religion

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#faith

If my God damns people for love but saves them for brutle warfare, then that is not the God I know or wish to worship. ↗

— Cristina Marrero

#glbt #god #lesbian #love #personal-faith

Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#nationalism #religion #faith

The process of secularisation arises not from the loss of faith but from the loss of social interest in the world of faith. It begins the moment men feel that religion is irrelevant to the common way of life and that society as such has nothing to do with the truths of faith. ↗

— Christopher Henry Dawson

#faith #history #religion #secularism #faith

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. -Jose Bergamin, author (1895-1983) ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#politics #religion #society #faith

The sight of her made him understand why he'd lost his faith in God. ↗

— Sarah Langan

#fiction #god #horror #human-cruelty #humor

Zoroastrianism? Oh, there’s never been but a few hundred thousand of them at any one time, mostly located in Iran and India, but that’s it. The one true faith. If you’re not a Zoroastrian, I’m afraid you are bound for Hell.” The man looked stunned and shocked. "It's not fair." The demon gave a mirthful laugh. “Well, it was fair when you were sending all the Chinese to Hell who had never heard of Jesus. Wasn’t it? ↗

— Steven L. Peck

#christianity #christians #hell #jesus #lds

The teachings of Buddha are eternal, but even then Buddha did not proclaim them to be infallible. The religion of Buddha has the capacity to change according to times, a quality which no other religion can claim to have... Now what is the basis of Buddhism? If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion. ↗

— B.R. Ambedkar

#buddhism #rationalism #religion #change

Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The Omnipotence to Change His future mind? ↗

— Karen Owens

#humor #omnipotence #omniscience #paradox #religion

If I imagine my soul, as I do when I pray, it's shaped like Stapafel. No change of place or religion can alter that. I lived beneath Stapafel from the hour I was born until I was sixteen. I've never seen it since, but that doesn't matter. My soul is in the likeness of a jagged peak with a rock like a man standing on its summit, and snags of rock shaped like trolls along its spine. Screes defend it, although it's not quite inaccessible if you know the way up. ↗

— Margaret Elphinstone

#life #perception #religion #soul #spirit