#religions

All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#contradictions #life-and-death #religions #death

During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#cultures #during #here #how #least

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final. ↗

— Hypatia

#dogmatic #fallacious #final #formal #must

Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions. ↗

— Steve Kerr

#areas #because #blessed #country #despite

The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#god #grateful #grateful dead #homage #other

At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil. ↗

— Hans Kung

#bases #different #ethical #evil #good

Death doesn't just make all the world kin, it makes all religions one ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#kin #religions #unwholly #world #death

Religions die slowly. ↗

— Franz Marc

#religions #slowly

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#any #established #feature #law #marked

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no! ↗