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Modern society, the political body, the legal and judiciary system, the state of governance, capitalism and the very fabric of the society itself, including our religions and so-called morals and values, are institutions steeped in traditions of absolute and total violence. ↗

— Bryant McGill

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You don't pray?" Ram asks. "Which one should I pray to," I say flatly, "the dragon, or the fairy?" Ram stares at me. I tug on my ponytail. "That's our religion," I explain, suddenly self-conscious. "A mountain fairy married a dragon. That's where we all come from." I can see the shy smile poking at Ram's lips. "You're half-fairy?" "And half-dragon," I remind him. "Right. Definitely. ↗

— Rose Christo

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God will not allow us to be overwhelmed by temptation, but with it He will provide a way of escape so that we will be able to endure it. ↗

— Rebecca Wells

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The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent people. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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The brutal fact is that in this Christian country not one person in a hundred has the faintest notion what the Church teaches about God or man or society or the person of Jesus Christ. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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The theory of evolution also had a very great effect in alienating science from religion and creating a world in which one could go about studying the wonders of creation without ever having a sense of wonder in the religious sense of that term. ↗

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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Leave him with his God. I’m sure He’s as hard and unforgiving as Cain is. I don’t want to know about Cain’s God. If he is anything to be guided by, I’d rather be an atheist, thank you. ↗

— Olga Núñez Miret

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And the voice of God was in the whirlwind after all, said Thor ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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Many worry about the black box in their head wondering if it is bliss or despair, i do not for some one told to me think outside of the box. ↗

— Kody Snider

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Leemos el Evangelio tan sólo en vísperas de nuestros discursos, para brillar, mediante el conocimiento de una obra originalísima, con la que se pueden obtener efectos a 'medida'. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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