#religion

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. ↗

— Lamar S. Smith

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I firmly disbelieve in death. A spirit never dies. Where it wanders when it leaves the flesh, is a cognitive proposition. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#dying #god #heaven #hell #life

Pray to God, but row towards shore. ↗

— Lee Ezell

#religion #inspirational

you can't make sense of everything," she said. "that ain't the job of man. ↗

— Wiley Cash

#home

The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.' ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed. ↗

— Noah Webster

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Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley

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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#religion #skepticism #age

When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and essentially friendly to man despite occasional lapsesl when we see the steady methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man's worthlesseness - until redeemed - the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and time again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church state. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#christianity #hell #morality #religion #age