#religion

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point. ↗

— Michael Berryman

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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. ↗

— Annie Besant

#brought #ever #glad #good #good news

Danger past, God is forgotten. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#faith #reason #religion #faith

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding. ↗

— Amit Ray

#meditation #religion #self-discovery #life

when we look up, it widens our horizons. we see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insignificant, and we all take ourselves so seriously, but in the sky, there are no boundaries. No differences of caste or religion or race. ↗

— Julia Gregson

#horizon #meditation #religion #sky #thinking

Know thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#introspection #religion #religion

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice. ↗

— Georges Bizet

#ambition #cloak #employed #exploitation #injustice

Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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