#religion

So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#falsehood #law #ornament #pretense #religion

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#literary-criticism #pornography #religion #sex #religion

My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions. ↗

— Pam Grier

#races #receptive #religions #very

Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue. ↗

— Pam Grier

#because #before #bible #conflict #dealing

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really. ↗

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

#english #english literature #i #independent #literature

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#contributed #convincing #disappointment #fact #language

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#heaven #him #into #main #man

I’m done with all the stupid shit. I’m done with politicians, the rich taxing the poor. I’m done with organised religions, profiting off their prophets. I’m done with pop culture, making everything consumable. I’m done, I’m done, I’m done ↗

— Timothy Decker

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Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion. ↗

— Francis Herbert Hedge

#nature #part #person #religion #sympathy

It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new sciences,new talks, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks. ↗

— U.G. Krishnamurti

#psychology #religion #science #therapy #religion