#religion

Our very existence refuses your laws and your science, your religions and your philosophies. ↗

— B.E. Scully

#horror-authors #vampire #religion

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin. ↗

— Anatole France

#great #great service #love #making #religion

Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu heresy. How dare a bunch of goondas shrink the soaring majesty of the Vedas and the Upanishads to the petty bigotry of their brand of identity politics? ↗

— Shashi Tharoor

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religion is no longer the opium of the people but the vitamin pills of the feeble. ↗

— Régis Debray

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Religion isn't the opium of the people, it's the hypocrisy. ↗

— Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez

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Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions. ↗

— Franklin Foer

#football-clubs #religion #soccer #religion

I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away. ↗

— Henry Fonda

#away #been #christian #eight #facing

I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid? ↗

— Matthew Fox

#change #east #essentially #going #here

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#believes #lies #nature #person #place

What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#anything #being #church #else #go