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I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isn't true. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#customs #falsehood #falsehoods #hoax #institutions

Everybody is always touting the division between religion and science.... That division is based on a false premise. It simply doesn't exist. The first sciences developed from a desire to prove the existence of God. In that sense, science and religion have been hand in hand from the very beginning. ↗

— A.J. Kazinski

#science #religion

Si otras culturas han sobrevivido 10,000 años sin las reglas religiosas del islam, mormonismo, hinduismo o cristianismo, ¿cuál es el propósito de las restricciones y la culpa religiosas? ↗

— Darrel Ray

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Time will come and some people will be proud of themselves that they have never believed in any religion! This honour will be belonging to the clever people of the society only! For the others, merely the deep shame will remain! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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Potrei essere qui in quanto qualcuno vuole che sia così. C'è chi lo crede. Dio? dice lei con dolore e ironia nella voce.Se esistesse andrebbe licenziato per giusta causa, incapacità, assenteismo, e poi giustiziato per crudeltà, bruciato per eresia contro le verità che lui stesso ha proclamato. Già fatto, dico io. Già frustato, crocifisso, ucciso e sepolto. Ma pretende l'esistenza, risponde lei, e si sazia feroce dei desideri che ci incidono il cuore. ↗

— veladiano

#fede #religione #religion

The realm of God is dangerous. You must enter into it and not just seek information about it ↗

— Archbishop Anthony Bloom

#god #life #religion #wild-at-heart #religion

Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is the Great Wall of China between them! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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But if subjective pietism is not the real crux of this all-important Gospel, if it is instead belief in the plan of salvation, how are we not dealing with "salvation by (cognitive) works" and Gnosticism (salvation by special knowledge)? Fundamentalists hotly deny it, but isn't it finally a matter of believers in the right religion being saved and everyone else being disqualified? ↗

— Robert M. Price

#gnosticism #salvation #religion

La religion n'est pas un pont entre Dieu et l'homme, c'est une Grande Muraille de Chine entre eux! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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... There is a publication classification in an upper corner. It reads Religion. I'm immediately skeptical <...> because I've always group books such as this in a category with crap like Astrology, Aromatherapy, Crystalology, Pyramid Power, Psychic Healing and Feng Shui <...> that anyone would actually believe that these things could solve their problems, really solve them, instead of just making them forget about them for a while, is asinine to me... ↗

— James Frey

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