#religion

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#confined #conflict #god #great #love

We are gods with anuses. ↗

— Ernest Becker

#human-condition #humor #philosofy #psychology #religion

‎Those who aren't following Jesus aren't his followers. It's that simple. Followers follow, and those who don't follow aren't followers. To follow Jesus means to follow Jesus into a society where justice rules, where love shapes everything. To follow Jesus means to take up his dream and work for it. ↗

— Scot McKnight

#church #discipleship #faith #jesus #religion

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#atheism #atheist #christianity #death #god

Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#religion #faith

In the desert, the only god is a well. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#desert #desolation #faith #fountain #god

The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our founding document, tell them to stop using the word 'trinity.' The word 'trinity' appears nowhere in the bible. Neither does Rapture, or Second Coming, or Original Sin. If they are still unfazed (or unphrased), by this, then add Omniscience, Omnipresence, Supernatural,Transcendence, Afterlife, Deity, Divinity, Theology, Monotheism, Missionary, Immaculate Conception, Christmas, Christianity, Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Methodist, Catholic, Pope, Cardinal, Catechism, Purgatory, Penance, Transubstantiation, Excommunication, Dogma, Chastity, Unpardonable Sin, Infallibility, Inerrancy, Incarnation, Epiphany, Sermon, Eucharist, the Lord's Prayer, Good Friday, Doubting Thomas, Advent, Sunday School, Dead Sea, Golden Rule, Moral, Morality, Ethics, Patriotism, Education, Atheism, Apostasy, Conservative (Liberal is in), Capital Punishment, Monogamy, Abortion, Pornography, Homosexual, Lesbian, Fairness, Logic, Republic, Democracy, Capitalism, Funeral, Decalogue, or Bible. ↗

— Dan Barker

#religion #scripture #separation-of-church-and-state #education

God is as real as a station wagon. ↗

— Peggy Payne

#god #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #mysticism #religion

Religion is about responsibility to a community and a tradition ... ↗

— Joanna Brooks

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Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it. ↗

— Carl L. Becker

#reason #religion #faith