#religion

The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get. ↗

— Glen Cook

#religion #dreams

An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown. An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour. ↗

— Aberjhani

#christianity #human-nature #humanity #intolerance #islam

With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#skepticism #superstition #religion

The giver of life mock of us only a dream we chase oh my friends our hearth trust But he really mock of us but with emotion we enjoy in the green things and in the paintings The giver of life make us live he knows, he rules how we, the men, will die nobody, nobody, nobody really lives on earth. (Manuscript, Cantares Mexicanos/National Library of Mexico) ↗

— ometeotl

#dreams

Dare 2 Dream ↗

— SaBrowny Rae

#murder #mystery #religion #romance #dreams

Like a lot of once devout people who have lost their faith, I had holes the size of heaven and hell in my head and in my heart. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#religion #faith

The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a learned and gentle brāhmaṇa, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and a dog-eater. ↗

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

#equality

A new concept of god: “something not very different from the sum total of the physical laws of the universe; that is, gravitation plus quantum mechanics plus grand unified field theories plus a few other things equaled god. And by that all they meant was that here were a set of exquisitely powerful physical principles that seemed to explain a great deal that was otherwise inexplicable about the universe. Laws of nature…that apply not just locally, not just in Glasgow, but far beyond: Edinburgh, Moscow…Mars…the center of the Milky Way, and out by the most distant quarters known. That the same laws of physics apply everywhere is quite remarkable. Certainly that represents a power greater than any of us. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#religion #science #equality

The problem is that one man's superstition is another man's religion, and vice versa. Many Protestants today still see Catholicism as being rife with superstition, ... while atheists and agnostics would see bien-pensant Protestants as worshiping an equally absurd form of the supernatural. ↗

— David Gibson

#superstition #equality

No man [...] can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself. ↗

— John Milton

#equality #freedom #god #liberty #religion