#religions

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

The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.' ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#been #better #creating #destructive #enough

As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very little. ↗

— James Wolfensohn

#flow #fundamentalism #little #look #muslim

Religious structure often dilutes the spiritual experience. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#spiritual-experience #truth #experience

Tell them we may not be praying with them," Father told the Vicar, "but we are at least not actively praying against them. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#religion

I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t. It’s the great mystery. (Steve Jobs) ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#steve-jobs #religion

I am not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where facts are concerned. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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In the future, all religions will sink, only God will remain stand still! The untruth can survive only for a while and then it sinks! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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Disaat teman, pacar dan disekellingmu melupakanmu, ingatlah bahwa Allah yg tidak akan membiarkan kamu sendiri. ↗

— Azizirrahim Putra Widanih

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It is undoubtedly true that religion is often socially conservative. By binding a people together under a shared God, a common cosmology and a common morality, religion creates order and stability and its rituals create social cohesio...n. By promising to the pious poor rewards in the next life, it reconciles them to their fate in this one and thus discourages them from rebelling against their condition... [also] religion [is] an inspiration to radicalism and rebellion. religion is a potential threat to any political or social order because it claims an authority higher than any available in this world. pp. 10-11 ↗

— Steve Bruce

#politics #religions #inspirational