#religion

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living. ↗

— Toni Cade Bambara

#living #might #religion #technology #you

It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#correct #cult #describe #faction #islamic

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#art #attempt #failures #just #numerous

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#claim #effective #evil #good #power

The terrible error in the course of human civilization is undoubtedly the defective judgment that allowed religious authorities usurp the foundation of societal morality, in which all collective ethics of humankind must take a cause. This appalling blunder is comparable only to assigning the leper exclusive franchise to run beauty clinics in the society; this can only lead to cycles upon cycles of common infection syndrome. ↗

— Adebowale Ojowuro

#ethics-and-moral-philosophy #freethought #new-book #religion #scepticism

There would be no history as we know it, no religion, no metaphysics or aesthetics as we have lived them, without an initial act of trust, of confiding, more fundamental, more axiomatic by far than any “social contract” or covenant with the postulate of the divine. This instauration of trust, this entrance of man into the city of man, is that between word and world. ↗

— George Steiner

#religion

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon. ↗

— Richard John Neuhaus

#both #evil #good #good and evil #human

This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into (schools). ↗

— Michael Newdow

#infusing #into #issue #our #religion

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

#constitution #government #i #infusing #into

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#any #been #cannot #dogma #dream