#religion

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

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#believe #earth #encompasses #god #i

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

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

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#attack #courts #first #first amendment #protect

Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those "others". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that. ↗

— Alija Izetbegovic

#chauvinism #complicated #country #lot #make

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#human #i #i think #just #religion