#religion

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

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I suppose my greatest disappointment has been realizing my father, like Joseph and Brigham before him, tried to shroud his passions in the mantle of religion. He used God to defend his adultery. --- Ann Eliza Young, page 253 ↗

— David Ebershoff

#religion

All of the world's religions have important things to teach us, and they are not as different from each other as some would have you believe. ↗

— Kent Allan Rees

#tolerance #religion

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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Islam is not man's ultimate justification to do as he pleases--it is, instead, a religion built on reason and evidence. If each of us asks the ustaz for the causes of his religious opinions, then we should, by doing so, help realise the principles of Islam and thus improve intellectual discussion in our own community. ↗

— Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin

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The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#get #i #keep #love #really

It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together. ↗

— Billy Higgins

#people #races #religions #together

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself. ↗

— David Hilbert

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Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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