“You are human, whether your ancestors come from Europe, Asia, Africa, or wherever, shamanism once existed there. We are just attempting to go home to our spiritual roots before the state religions, the agrarian centralized religions rose up with autocratic government and said, 'This is what you're going to believe, these are the official revelations, take it from us, you can trust us, we got it.'” BelieveHumansSaidStatesHomeGovernmentSpiritualEuropeRootsRoseOfficialsRevelationsAncestorAsiaAttemptingShamanism Author:Michael Harner
“Consider this: there is not a single word in [the Sermon on the Mount] about what to believe, only words about what to do. It is a behavioral manifesto, not a propositional one. Yet three centuries later, when the Nicene Creed became the official oath of Christendom, there was not a single word in it about what to do, only words about what to believe!” BelieveThreeCenturyOfficialsCreedsSermonsOathSingle WordChristendomManifestosSermon On The Mount Book:Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus Source: Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus
“My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them.” BelieveHeartOfficialsElected Officials Author:DeForest Soaries
“I shall speak only of the part I have stayed in- the districts of Lakes Ochrida and Presba. Here there are Greeks, Slavs, Albanians, and Vlahs. Of Turks, except officials and such of the army as may be quartered on the spot, there are few. The Albanians, I believe, are all Moslem. Should there be any Christians they would be officially classed as Greeks. A large part of the land near Lake Presba is owned by Moslem Albanians as ' chiftliks '(farms).” ShouldBelieveMayWould BeChristianSpeakI BelieveLandArmySpotsGreekOfficialsLakesFarms Author:Edith Durham