#religion

Organized religion is the school of hate, and never more exultant in its righteous indignation than when it talks about gay and lesbian. In America the unholy alliance between the know-nothing fundamentalists and the Catholic hierarchy keeps the faithful whipped up to a frenzy of witch-hunting and fag-bashing. ↗

— Paul Monette

#glbt #hate #homophobia #religion #faith

Folks, the message of Christ is simple. It's not heady, or high-minded, or supremely intellectual at all. It is simple on purpose. It is simple enough to be understood by every person. ↗

— Curtis A. Chamberlain

#faith

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion. ↗

— Abdurrahman Wahid

#grasp #islam #knowing #lenient #many

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion. ↗

— Rick Warren

#church #i #i believe #i believe in #i do

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. ↗

— Alan Watts

#becomes #certain #clings #faith #fanatic

Politics in America is the binding secular religion. ↗

— Theodore White

#binding #politics #religion #secular

All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#born #disturbed #environments #nurtured #religions

When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#any #ask #because #breaking #christ

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#common good #creed #good #greatest #higher

Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#another #belong #cannot #fallacy #languages