#religion

The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of imprisonment in the Earth. ↗

— Walter M. Miller Jr.

#mythology #science-vs-religion #war #age

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#art #how #masterpiece #people #religion

I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld. ↗

— Michael Newdow

#believe #constitution #government #i #i believe

The ruthlessness of the godly invalidated their claims of virtue. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#virtue #religion

A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle. ↗

— Arthur Bloch

#religion

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#anything #be true #cannot #child #mind

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#army #believing #control #could #haven

Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just ↗

— Michela Wrong

#inquisition #middle-ages #religion #age

The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence. ↗

— Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri

#intelligence #religion #world #intelligence

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#magic #religion #superstition #intelligence