#religion

The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of imprisonment in the Earth. ↗

— Walter M. Miller Jr.

#mythology #science-vs-religion #war #age

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no! ↗

— Taslima Nasrin

#cry #deny #human #human beings #made

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God. ↗

— Gouverneur Morris

#duties #education #god #good #man

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#art #how #masterpiece #people #religion

Perhaps I shouldn't call it shit. That's a bit crude. I don't really despise Christianity or even the Roman Church, and certainly not the incontrovertible glory of the Middle Ages. What I do despise is the contemporary inclination to flop to the knees and crawl back into the past, to shy from what seem like impossible problems in order to bury the head, asshole aloft and twitching, in the Sands of Time. Cowardice, I calls it. Illusion-seeking. Womb-crawling. And treason. Desertion in the face of the enemy. Strong words indeed. But I've always been rather a blunt, tough, plain-spoken type . . . ↗

— Edward Abbey

#age

Если искусство — всего лишь выражение неудовлетворенных страстей, если религия — самообман, то для чего мы живем? ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#religion #art

I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law. ↗

— Taslima Nasrin

#because #beings #human #human beings #i

The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism. ↗

— Taslima Nasrin

#against #difficult #fundamentalism #fundamentalists #increasing

I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld. ↗

— Michael Newdow

#believe #constitution #government #i #i believe

The ruthlessness of the godly invalidated their claims of virtue. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#virtue #religion