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“Religion of Blue Circle
To bring and give a lesson,
is to leave the last lesson not pronounced.
Amen, Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
August 29, 2016
Amen
God”
“Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might suppose that the possession of such a magnificent formula, combined with the tremendous assurance of a benevolent God, would make a person happy. But such appears not to be the case.: unease and insecurity and rage seem to keep up with blissful certainty, and even to outpace it.”
“Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.”
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion
“Religion of the Self [Soul] is that where no difficulty or trouble arises for anyone or any living being of ‘our’ own accord.”
“Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.”
“Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself.”
Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“Religion operates on the principle 'I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.' But the operating principle of the gospel is 'I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.'”
Source: The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
“RELIGION OR COUNTRY
Our allegiance may determine the fate of others”
Source: Profound Vers-A-Tales
“Religion originates in the child's and young mankind's fears and need for help. It cannot be otherwise.”
“Religion ought not be brought so much ahead of self that you lag way too behind the humanity.”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“Religion played a part in many people’s lives and the largest sect was Snotism. Snotists worshiped Gundar, the god who created the universe with a might sneeze after snorting His favorite recreational drug. Spittle flew through empty space and solidified into suns, planets and comets.”
Source: The King Who Disappeared
“Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.”
Source: Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.
“Religion poisons everything”
“Religion, politics, and fear have always had this weird underestimated algorithmic relationship.”
Source: Ouch! A memoir with a twist…
“Religion poses a danger of creating division or intolerance between groups of people. However, the gospel of Jesus lead us to three things: humble service, reconciling behavior that is neither patronizing nor self-righteous, and a love toward people who hold different beliefs than we do.”
“Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.”
Source: The spectator
“Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.”
“Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.”
“Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.”
“Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.”
“Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.”
Source: Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels: A Library of America eBook Classic
“Religion reminds me of a lace condom. While lovingly crafted, it’s not designed for pleasure; unless inflated with fervour, it collapses; one size does not fit all; and no matter how many times you dunk it in holy water, it will not prevent misconceptions or contagion.”
“Religion represents the outer form of spirituality, but Sanatana Dharma represents the more important inner heart of all spirituality. (p. 17)”
Source: Sanatana Dharma: The Eternal Natural Way
“Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness and protection from suffering. Its technique consists in depressing the value of life and distorting the picture of the real world in a delusional manner - which presupposes an intimidation of the intelligence. At this price, by forcibly fixing them in a state of psychical infantilism and by drawing them into a mass-delusion, religion succeeds in sparing many people an individual neurosis. But hardly anything more.”
Source: Civilization and Its Discontents
“Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.”
Source: My Religion
“Religion says "Do." Grace says "Done" because Jesus said "It is finished."”
“Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.”
“Religion says, 'I obey; therefore I am accepted.' Christianity says, 'I'm accepted, therefore I obey.”
“Religion, Science, Principles and Values are good only if it make the human lives more conscious and empathetic.”
“Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.”
Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion
“Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author
“Religion separate people while the issues of life that all people share in common, bring them together.”
Source: How to Trust God When All Other Resources Have Failed
“Religion serves all of us; men, women, gays, straights, blacks, whites, Americans and Indians. If it does not comply with our needs, wishes and happiness, then religion without a doubt is a plague that must be stopped.”
“Religion should be a basis for overcoming division, not for creating it.”
Source: Julia's Jihad
“Religion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy.”
“Religion should be about your relationship with God, not what the church says you can and can't do.”
“Religion should be dearer than life itself.”
Source: The Way to Communal Harmony
“Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.”
Source: Character and Opinion in the United States
“Religion should be for the people and not for the sinners.”
“Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First Amendment, we should recall, forbids Congress both from establishing laws designating a state religion and from abridging freedom of speech. There is no reason why we should shy away from speaking freely about religion, no reason why it should be thought impolite to debate it, especially when, as so often happens, religious folk bring it up on their own and try to impose it on others.”
“Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.”
Source: Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales
“Religion should lay more emphasis on our relationship with people”
“Religion should never try and determine the landscape in which we live.”
“Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics....Religion is merely a matter between man and God.”
“Religion should not only comfort us when we are disturbed; it should also disturb us when we are comfortable.”
Source: Say Yes to Life: A Book of Thoughts for Better Living
“Religion should teach about hope to come for all, not terror for some”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“Religion should unite all hearts and cause wars and disputes to vanish from the face of the earth; it should give birth to spirituality, and bring light and life to every soul. If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division, it would be better to be without it... Any religion which is not a cause of love and unity is no religion.”
“Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects, and every religious person is loyal to just one of these. ... The overwhelming majority just happen to choose the one their parents belonged to. Not the sect that has the best evidence in its favour, the best miracles, the best moral code, the best cathedral, the best stained-glass, the best music when it comes to choosing from the smorgasbord of available religions, their potential virtues seem to count for nothing compared to the matter of heredity.”
“Religion speaks of unity; spirituality lives it.”
“Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise to an approving God.”