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“Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.”
“Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second are determined modes of action.”
Source: Durkheim on Religion: A Selection of Readings with Bibliographies and Introductory Remarks
“Religious pluralism is a popular belief in Western culture. At first it sounds very inclusive, but it is really just as exclusive as any other claims. Religious pluralists are those who argue that the “real God” is actually a mix of the gods of all the religions combined (ie. the Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Jehovah’s Witness; and we can even throw in ancient Greek gods). By mixing all the major religions, they are discounting the exclusive truth claims to which religions strictly adhere.”
Source: Clear Minds & Dirty Feet: A Reason To Hope, A Message To Share
“Religious pluralism is neither mere coexistence nor forced consensus. It is a form of proactive cooperation that affirms the identity of the constituent communities while emphasizing that the well-being of each and all depends on the health of the whole. It is the belief that the common good is best served when each community has a chance to make its unique contribution.”
“Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.”
“Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.”
“Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.”
“Religious reasons, which is no reason. I notice Skeptic had a review of Dennett's book, Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Religious reasons amount to what Dennett terms "skyhooks." Do you believe in skyhooks? I don't.”
“Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.”
Source: The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
“Religious reverence for one's own job, even if the job is worth doing, is a sexual turnoff.”
“Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.”
“Religious ritual was essential to establishing and maintaining never-before-seen levels of social complexity. Furthermore, ritual behavior was the very mechanism by which we acquired our uniquely human capacity for symbolic thought. Thus, religious ritual made us human.”
Source: Supernatural Selection: How Religion Evolved
“Religious sentiments are many a times much above reality. All are aware of reality but blinded by faith and faith has always led to many a myths become reality".”
“Religious sexual harassment and abuse has become an epidemic. Sadly, it's not something new. It's existed since the fall of Adam and Eve. Religion is not exempt. A sacred place meant to be safe and holy has become the breeding ground for violence and evil.”
Source: Sacred Wandering: Growing Your Faith In The Dark
“Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.”
“Religious strictures are often the source of attitudes toward nudity. Society urges the wearing of clothing partially as a means of controlling the powerful sexual urges that are feared will be released by nudity, causing chaotic behavior.”
“Religious structure often dilutes the spiritual experience.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.”
“Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further along, a minaret - these symbols represent human life in all its diversity.”
“Religious teachings and teachers have conditioned us to think of faith as a magic catalyst that makes God work for us. In no way does faith make God work nor does it release some kind of miracle power. Faith simply tunes into and turns on the divine flow that has always been present”
“Religious thinking induces excessive humility, which is pride in disguise.”
Source: Kingdom Fundamentals: What the Kingdom of God Means and What it Means for You | A Thorough and Biblical Exposition of the Kingdom of Heaven as Preached by Jesus
“Religious thinking is more accurate in realizing there can be no creation without the mover. Zero point is the "first" point. This zero point is something. It did not come from nothing. The World, as a "physical reality," has its physical and temporal beginning, but the force empowering it, the Universal Mind, is out of time, so there can be no notion of time to refer to before the Big Bang.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Religious tolerance does not mean one cannot express his own beliefs. It does mean that seeking to undermine or attack the religious faith and beliefs of another has always been a short road to trouble.”
Source: The Way To Happiness
“Religious tolerance has developed more as a consequence of the impotence of religions to impose their dogmas on each other than as a consequence of spiritual humility in the quest for understanding first and last things.”
“Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.”
“Religious traditions can be reinterpreted in a manner that assists healing, corrects distortions, and expands vision.”
“Religious traditions hold enormous value, extraordinary wisdom, breathtaking insights into the human experience, but they are limited to the degree that there has not been a new theological idea expressed by any of the major religions for thousands of years.”
“Religious trauma resides in our bodies and nervous systems in the same way that trauma from war, developmental trauma, or sexualized trauma live inside us. Though the triggers and environment of the original trauma may differ, how religious trauma lives in our bodies, on a physiological level, is the same.”
Source: When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
“Religious truth is captive in a small number of little manuscripts which guard the common treasures, instead of expanding them. Let us break the seal which binds these holy things; let us give wings to truth that it may fly with the Word, no longer prepared at vast expense, but multitudes everlastingly by a machine which never wearies to every soul which enters life.”
“Religious truth is not false for being narrow any more than mathematical or scientific truth is false for the same reason.”
“Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.”
Source: Collected Works
“Religious unity and religious tolerance are not the same thing. Unity doesn’t come merely through tolerance. You don’t need to tolerate people from other religions. It is time you start loving them. Toleration may make you a decent person, but it is love that makes you a true human being.”
Source: In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience
“Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.”
“Religious war at its simplest is killing each other over who has the best imaginary friend.”
“Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat concepts with respect.”
“Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.”
“Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease”
“Religiously speaking, interest is an act of theft.”
“Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the lively life of the mind - the delights of conversation at once serious and gay, which is, whatever its subject, Christ or poetry or history, the ultimately civilized thing.”
“Religião é como um homem cego procurando em um quarto escuro por um gato preto que não está lá, e o encontrando." ― Oscar Wilde”
Source: Seria a Bíblia um livro científico?: Por que a Bíblia Sagrada não deve ser levada a sério e como argumentar contra ela (Estudos Bíblicos para ateus 2)
“Religiöse Menschen haben Rechte, Religionen nicht.”
Source: Hotline für besorgte Bürger
“Relinquish what you once believed
was your success limitation.
Create and place your focus on
what you want to be manifested
in your life and begin your journey.
There are blessings of abundance
awaiting your acceptance”
“Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities”
Source: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
“Relinquish your ideology of control, for it is merely a mirage anyway.”
“Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.”
“Relinquishing control to another person is like death: it’s only scary until it finally happens.”
“Relinquishing resentment is redemption”
“Relinquishment of burdens and fears begins where adoration and worship of God become the occupation of the soul.”
“Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.”
“Relish in the qualities that make you so special and different from everyone else. Celebrate your individuality. It becomes so much easier to stop chasing everyone else’s goals when you stop caring what they think about you.”