#religion

Ironic, isn't it, what religion does to people?" "I guess it's more ironic what people do to religion. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#dreams

All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth. ↗

— Pat Buckley

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Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts. ↗

— Pat Buckley

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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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À igreja nunca se lhe pediu que explicasse fosse o que fosse, a nossa outra especialidade, além da balística, tem sido neutralizar, pela fé, o espírito curioso. ↗

— José Saramago

#death

Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake. ↗

— Jon Stewart

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I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much. ↗

— Mother Teresa

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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.. ↗

— John Milton

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My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#philosophical #politics #religion #religious #inspirational

As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what he said was true enough, just as some of it was arguably less so. (Edward incautiously dismissed 'speculations about the latest conspiracy to blow up buildings or sabotage commercial airliners' as the feverish product of 'highly exaggerated stereotypes.') Covering Islam took as its point of departure the Iranian revolution, which by then had been fully counter-revolutionized by the forces of the Ayatollah. Yes, it was true that the Western press—which was one half of the pun about 'covering'—had been naïve if not worse about the Pahlavi regime. Yes, it was true that few Middle East 'analysts' had had any concept of the latent power of Shi'ism to create mass mobilization. Yes, it was true that almost every stage of the Iranian drama had come as a complete surprise to the media. But wasn't it also the case that Iranian society was now disappearing into a void of retrogressive piety that had levied war against Iranian Kurdistan and used medieval weaponry such as stoning and amputation against its internal critics, or even against those like unveiled women whose very existence constituted an offense? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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