#religion

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#atheism #belief #less #many #modernity

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#basic #modernity #overcomes #religion #secular

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#always #anvil #god #higher #shaping

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#established #how #i #i do #know

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#common people #excellent #keeping #people #quiet

People consider Islam as the best religion of world; I wonder if best of them is that much worse, I am really proud of being an Atheist. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#religion #religion

There are three subjects I`ve learned never to discuss at nudist camps: politics, religion, and tape measures. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#religion

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#like #mystery #never #religion #should

I do engineering, not religion. ↗

— Daniel J. Bernstein

#i #i do #religion

The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God. ↗

— William Ames

#communicated #concerns #first #god #other