#religion

The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these values seem to have taken a life of their own, and this gives us the illusion that we can get rid of Christianity and keep the values. This, Nietzsche says, is an illusion...Remove the Christian foundation, and the values must go too. ↗

— Dinesh D'Souza

#freedom-of-religion #religion #freedom

I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can survive in what is left of the natural world). I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusion about freedom plague them both. ↗

— Yann Martel

#illusion #religion #zoo #freedom

We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass on an undivided Republic purged of racism and slavery, to our descendants. The popgun discharges of a few pathetic sectarians and crackpot revisionists are negligible, and will be drowned by the mounting chorus that demands: 'Mr Jefferson! BUILD UP THAT WALL'. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#freedom-of-religion #religion #thomas-jefferson #freedom

Basically all the religions,sciences and powers of the world boil down to a simple truth. The Best Story Teller will win in the end! ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#life #peace #reality #religion #truth

You can't pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be against all of it. ↗

— Scott Howard Phillips

#freedom-of-expression #freedom-of-religion #freedom-of-speech #freedom-of-the-press #freedom-of-thought

The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#freedom-of-speech #political-correctness #freedom

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#evil #first-amendment #freedom #freedom-of-speech #hubris

Limited government is not a means to liberty, it is an end. That is to say, there are always going to be a group of citizens who cannot meet their basic needs, and there most assuredly will always be politicians willing to promise that they will meet them. The difference between liberty and tyranny by popular support, or correctly termed “democratic despotism, ” is little more than the vehicle a free society chooses to use in order to meet those needs. ↗

— Richard D. Baris

#political-parties #political-philosophy #political-science #political-theory #religion-and-science

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend, and together we shall walk in the way of God. ↗

— Hillel Hazakein

#religion #friendship

But when I make a good [taxidermy] mount I feel like I beat God in a small way. As though the Almighty said, Let such critter be dead, and I said, 'Fuck You, he can still play the banjo. ↗

— Christopher Buehlman

#religion #taxidermy #humor