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Not many years before the Happening, one of your country's largest religious bodies officially declared that their book was holier than their God, thus simultaneously and corporately breaking several commandments of their own religion, particularly the first one. Of course they liked the book better! It was full of magic and contradictions that they could quote to reinforce their bigoted and hateful opinions, as I well know, for I chose many parts of it from among the scrolls and epistles that were lying around in caves here and there. They're correct that a god picked out the material; they just have the wrong god doing it. (The small god in Ch. 44) ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#religion #religion

...Catholic versus Protestant, essentially. It's that kind of fight. ... And it goes on to this day. Will we never learn? Who knows? Religion. Shit it. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#religion #stephen-fry #religion

The irony of Christianity is that believers get so angry, and self righteous toward other Christians who sin differently than they do. Christianity is like one large fraternity where brother and sisterhood is tested by hazing. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#criticism #ego #hazing #judgement #religion-literature

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock. ↗

— Howard Stern

#any #around #between #difference #divided

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest ↗

— Alfred de Musset

#religion #sin #religion

Saying spirituality cannot exist without religion is like saying hamburgers cannot exist without McDonald's. ↗

— Steven Barnes

#religion #spirituality #religion

As obvious as it is, then, Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day. He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain him, especially the one called 'Christianity'. ↗

— Rob Bell

#jesus #religion #spirituality #love

Dying in the line of duty is heroic, but dying while unemployed is just stupid. ↗

— Tsugumi Ohba

#heroic #unemployed #death

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on. ↗

— James Frey

#honor #strength #strength

We are all tricked. We think that religion tells us what to believe; but it doesn't, it is telling us what not to believe. Atheism is not the absence of religion; atheism is the most undiluted form of religion: it tells us not to believe in anything at all. Atheists hate the religious and the religious hate atheists, but this is only a deception! We are all deceived! There is only one boat and we are all in it! All at the same time! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#deception #dogma #religion #the-great-deception #trickery