#religion

In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#christianity #edward-said #humility #london #palestine

Sadness is never bad," said Amparo. "Sadness is the mirror of being happy ↗

— Tim Willocks

#sadness #religion

The goal of religious thinking is exactly the same as that of technological research -- namely, practical action. Whenever man is truly concerned with obtaining concrete results, whenever he is hard pressed by reality, he abandons abstract speculation and reverts to a mode of response that becomes increasingly cautious and conservative as the forces he hopes to subdue, or at least to outrun, draw ever nearer. ↗

— René Girard

#pragmatism #religion #technology #religion

Religion turned some folks belligerent. ↗

— Eileen Wilks

#religion

I’m done with all the stupid shit. I’m done with politicians, the rich taxing the poor. I’m done with organised religions, profiting off their prophets. I’m done with pop culture, making everything consumable. I’m done, I’m done, I’m done ↗

— Timothy Decker

#religion

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion. ↗

— Francis Herbert Hedge

#nature #part #person #religion #sympathy

It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new sciences,new talks, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks. ↗

— U.G. Krishnamurti

#psychology #religion #science #therapy #religion

I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#grow up #i #love #mormon #religion

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#earlier #expressed #individual #many #miracles

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#come #going #new #religion #up