“The continent has embraced a spiritual death long before the demographic one. In those seventeen European countries that have fallen into the… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“When one speaks of religion influencing public policy, the immediate question is, Whose religion? If one subscribes to the notion that this… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
“We should be alert to oppose the potential significance of the fact that some government officials and public policy advocates are describing… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
“My belief is that, morally, God and Satan are vaguely on the same page. According to the common understanding of Satan's origins,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Religion is based primarily upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly as the wish to feel that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“To illustrate toaster righteousness, let’s say God decides to use toasters to spread His messages. He incorporates his love into an LLC… — Sadiqua Hamdan Copy Share Image
“Saying a prayer can be as simple as thinking positive thoughts about someone—it’s not an act that needs to be tied to… — Tom Walsh Copy Share Image
“Christianity nowadays is like a big household where many cousins live under the same roof. They all belong to the same clan,… — Maria Augusta Trapp Copy Share Image
“To man has been given the grief, often, of seeing his gods overthrown and his altars crumbling; but to the wolf and… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“The global triumph of Western values means we, as a species, have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other. Is uniformity… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“So the novelist David Foster Wallace, not long before his suicide, spoke these words to the 2005 graduating class at Kenyon College:… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Some modern Pagans claim to be staunchly apolitical, seeing radical Paganism as a highly unwelcome trend that corrupts religion by mixing it… — Christopher Scott Thompson Copy Share Image
“The dictator State has one great advantage over bourgeois reason: along with the individual it swallows up his religious forces. The State… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
“One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one’s soul, its vastness, and also its… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I am not better than you because of my religion, color, culture, education, status, wealth, etc. I am not, and neither are… — Najwa Zebian Copy Share Image
“The obvious pollution occurring in many places - worst of all, in the planned societies- has encouraged the growth of the environmental… — Jacqueline Kasun Copy Share Image
“There is a musicke where-ever there is a harmony, order or proportion; and thus farre we may maintain the musick of the… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“Citizens, the nineteenth century is grand, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then there will be nothing more like old history.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The fervor and single-mindedness of this deification probably have no precedent in history. It's not like Duvalier or Assad passing the torch… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Why does a young Muslim, in the prime of life, with a full life ahead, go and blow himself up in a… — Wafa Sultan Copy Share Image
“And the priests looked down into the pit of injustice and they turned their faces away and said, 'Our kingdom is not… — Peter Weiss Copy Share Image
“And that wasn't the end of it. There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“The predisposition to religious belief is an ineradicable part of human behavior. Mankind has produced 100,000 religions. It is an illusion to… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“One of the most interesting laws of planet earth is called the law of mirroring. I'm one of the 144 thousand chosen… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Deity, and with… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“The online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, has entries that tend to change rather often and is biased toward the religion of secularism. Even so,… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
“Similarly, the fact that another person believes in cowry shells, or dollars, or electronic data, is enough to strengthen our own belief… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“How develop the psychic forces? So live in body, in mind, that self may be a channel through which the Creative Forces… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
“Thus to him, to this school-boy under the bending dome of day, is suggested, that he and it proceed from one root;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The comparison of religions is only possible, in some measure, through the miraculous virtue of sympathy. We can know men to a… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“[Religious belief] is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I have considered the impudent accusations of Mr Dawkins with exasperation at his lack of serious scholarship. He has apparently not read… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Evil demons dwelling in underworlds, Gods sitting on-high, angels battling and protecting. We have become so wrapped up in these stories, and… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
“Self proclamation of authoritative titles is a common phenomenon among religious and/or occult sect leaders. A cursory survey of this primarily 20th… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“It will not, however, affect one tiny bit the question of whether the text has a literal meaning because—mark this—every biblical text… — Mark Shea Copy Share Image
“People said there had to be a Supreme Being because otherwise how could the universe exist, eh? And of course there clearly… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I see no reason why church services have to be standard. I've discussed this with the man who used to be a… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
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