Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim underlay not just ‘the occupation’ but the whole idea of a separate state for Jews in Palestine. Take away the divine warrant...

Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.

but it was a religion which enabled him to despise himself and everyone else without despising the universe, thus allowing him at once in argument or conversation to the advantages of the pessimist and the...

The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to rationalize the massacre of infidels, the ownership of women, the beating...

She had witnessed in nauseating detail how the human world worked: its rituals of comfort (television, food, religion); its appetite for poison (television, food, religion); and for the monstrous edifices of desire (television, food, religion):...

Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God.

Philosophy is to religion as psychoanalysis is to pseudoscience

There is a purpose in life–to raise men nearer to the likeness of God. Whoever seeks that ideal, daily, finds joy; and in no other way can true joy be found.

I don’t think God is so jealous about our worship of Him that He will want to separate those who serve His purposes, serve His goodness, because they have read a book, even one written...

Peygamberlik de Mucize gibidir. Gerçek bile olsa amaca hizmet etmemektedir. Peygamberliğini ilan eden kişinin yalan söyleyip söylemediği, gördüğünü söylediği şeylerin vahiy mi yoksa uydurma mı olduğu anlaşılamaz; peygamberlik olarak adlandırdığı ya da peygamberlik adı altında...

Though I despise it, I do not doubt His Love for the creatures. I have seen it —His ever-reaching outward for any hand that might reach back. At His love, I tremble yet believe.

The will of life and death, never share the same motivation…we all know that love is the ultimate motive to die for…but let’s not kid ourselves……we all know the ultimate motive to rise back from...

The eye is to light as the soul is to God.

Prayer ain’t weakened by distance.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.

The clothes have no emperor.

I feel unforgivable, but it was out of my control.” Never let them switch those round right or The Adversary will liberate them in a heartbeat, like a bird flying from a cage.

They knew how to live with nature and get along with nature. They didn’t try too hard to be all men and no animal. That’s the mistake we made when Darwin showed up. We embraced...

So they crucified their Messiah? Well can I believe it. That He was a Son of the Living Spirit would be naught to them, if indeed He was so…. They would care little for any...

Religion has a way of making people into idiots is what my father says.

Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you’re trying to escape.

All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion is also choosing a collective way for worshipping and sharing the mysteries. Nevertheless, that person is the...

If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, scientists are only slightly better.

religion is about having the right answers, and some of their answers are right… but i am about the process that takes you to the living answer… it will change you from the inside. there...

La science est une nouvelle religion et la désinfection est son eau bénite.

Pandora’s Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.

This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all...

We are talking about a bet, remember, and Pascal wasn’t claiming that his wager enjoyed anything but very long odds. Would you bet on God’s valuing dishonestly faked belief (or even honest belief) over honest...

The Cold Within”Six humans trapped in happenstanceIn dark and bitter cold, Each one possessed a stick of wood, Or so the story’s told.The first woman held hers backFor of the faces around the fire,She noticed...

Thanks To Those People Who Give A Taste Of Right Ways.

There comes a point where you need to lose your religion in order to restore your relationship.

We who are given the fullness of true Christianity are obliged to be working on ourselves, to be watching the signs of the times, and to be extremely joyful, as St. Paul is constantly saying:...

In the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I’m keeping a chart.

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

you don’t want to be hurt that’s why you throw your fellow sheep away yes you will no longer be hurt but the sheep you throw away is now walking to dark forest where a...

I had never been into society; for me the world was the enclosure of the college and the seminary. I had a vague knowledge that there was a something called woman, but I never dwelt...

As long as we were living in the spirit we would continue to be blessed

Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.

Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don’t have to figure out our own personal journey in solitude!They have to be metaphorical, because their interpretation will be different...

El diablo no es el príncipe de la materia, el diablo es la arrogancia del espíritu, la fe sin sonrisa, la verdad jamás tocada por la duda.

It’s not a religion, it’s a relationship!’Without the religion, without the archaic and flawed holy texts, there wouldn’t be anything for you to manufacture a ‘relationship’ with. Without the wars and forced conversions key to...

Se ha inventado casi todo pero no ha inventado el hombre una máxima de gobierno que supere a los principios de un Cristo, un Buda. No. Naturalmente, no le discutiré el derecho al escepticismo, pero...

Saying of the ProphetOppressionWhen oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest.

It is recorded in the monastic rules that a monk once performed an abortion on a girl; the Buddha judged his action seriously wrong, which incurred him the highest offense in the monastic rule. A...

Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.

Destiny waits in the hand of god, shaping the still unshapen..

I Think The Fact That A Human Being Created “Dettol” … A Product Which Protects You 99%You Should Learn That Nothing In This World Can Do It 100% Except God.

Death is universal. The rituals associated with it, however, vary substantially—and are greatly influenced by their religious and cultural context.

La visión de Dios en la mujer es la más perfecta de todas.” Ibn el Arabi