#religion

I sometimes believe there should have been only two religions - true & lie. ↗

— Farooq

#religion #religion

We create our own future by our own beliefs, which control our actions. A strong enough belief system, a sufficiently powerful conviction, can make anything happen. This is how we create our consensus reality, including our gods. ↗

— Brian Herbert

#religion #universe #religion

...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#history #religion #science #similarity #statement

I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#almost #anyway #child #disappeared #force

The noble old synagogue had been profaned and turned into a stable by the Nazis, and left open to the elements by the Communists, at least after they had briefly employed it as a 'furniture facility.' It had then been vandalized and perhaps accidentally set aflame by incurious and callous local 'youths.' Only the well-crafted walls really stood, though a recent grant from the European Union had allowed a makeshift roof and some wooden scaffolding to hold up and enclose the shell until further notice. Adjacent were the remains of a mikvah bath for the ritual purification of women, and a kosher abattoir for the ritual slaughter of beasts: I had to feel that it was grotesque that these obscurantist relics were the only ones to have survived. In a corner of the yard lay a pile of smashed stones on which appeared inscriptions in Hebrew and sometimes Yiddish. These were all that remained of the gravestones. There wasn't a Jew left in the town, and there hadn't been one, said Mr. Kichler, since 1945. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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He's Darkness. Unpleasant. I wouldn't trust him. Nor do I trust every mortal I meet. I don't know where evil comes from, and frankly it doesn't matter. Not right now. Histories and myths are renamed and reinvented eternally across the world. I can't speak to that. What I do know? This is your story. ↗

— Leanna Renee Hieber

#history #myth #religion #beauty

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#even #faith #love #love is #possible

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living. ↗

— Toni Cade Bambara

#living #might #religion #technology #you

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels. ↗

— Neal Boortz

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I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#belief #christian #christian religion #christmas #conditioning