#religion

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#external #god #necessarily #religion #search

It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#correct #cult #describe #faction #islamic

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#art #attempt #failures #just #numerous

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#claim #effective #evil #good #power

The terrible error in the course of human civilization is undoubtedly the defective judgment that allowed religious authorities usurp the foundation of societal morality, in which all collective ethics of humankind must take a cause. This appalling blunder is comparable only to assigning the leper exclusive franchise to run beauty clinics in the society; this can only lead to cycles upon cycles of common infection syndrome. ↗

— Adebowale Ojowuro

#ethics-and-moral-philosophy #freethought #new-book #religion #scepticism

It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all. ↗

— William James

#religion #spirituality #experience

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#enslave #necessary #only #philosophy #popular

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#best #heaven #hell #let us #out

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#great relationship #grew #i #relationship #religion

There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#any #better #holiday #holiday season #like