Faith Quote by Paul Theroux

“Myths are compost. They begin as religions, the most deeply held of beliefs, or as the stories that accrete to religions as they grow.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Abruptly, with the shock of the Conquest, the sober and puritanical man of the Christian Inquisition encountered, through their violent and upsetting nature, peoples…

— Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

“we have only the haziest notions about the religions of ancient foragers. We assume that they were animists, but that’s not very informative. We…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The simple idea that people should be allowed to worship as they wished caused more suffering than the ten plagues of Egypt.”

— Ken Follett

“there were gods who needed to be worshipped and placated, and the currency for that was blood.”

— Jo Nesbø

The only question that matters with regard to a religion and its mythology is “What do these stories mean?

— Reza Aslan

“The most barbarous and the most fantastic rites and the strangest myths translate some human need, some aspect of life, either individual or social.”

— Émile Durkheim

“The main concern of all great religions has been to fight a certain weariness and heaviness grown to epidemic proportions.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Gods become myths when people stop believin’ in them.”

— Peter Murphy

“Mythology and religion are relevant and remarkable, as they each represent imaginative truths – projections of human beings innermost desires – intermixed with fragments…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“at best, religion generates comforting noises to mask the fact that someone is starving to death, or is dying of cholera, or has had…

— P.Z. Myers

“Any large-scale human cooperation - whether a modern state, a medieval church, an ancient city or an archaic tribe - is rooted in common…

— Yuval Noah Harari