#religion

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

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Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#certain #conduct #fellow-men #fixed #general

We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

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I like to read about different religions - Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#buddhism #christianity #different #different religions #hinduism

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#billion #convinced #culture #deny #faith

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#ask #christian #christian religion #die #enough

The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith. ↗

— Randall Terry

#christian religion #confuse #faith #god #law

I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#asking #because #between #both #cases

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

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