“People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.” PeopleFirstsReligionUnderstandingFashionWorshipGod First Book:Epigrams of Oscar Wilde Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.” MenReligionFashionEvery ManOne ManTrimming Author:John Selden
“You will find men like him in all of the world's religions. They know that we represent reason and science, and, however confident they may be in their beliefs, they fear that we will overthrow their gods. Not necessarily through any deliberate act, but in a subtler fashion. Science can destroy a religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistance of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.” KnowsMenWorldWellsMayReasonReligionBeliefFashionFollowersDeliberateFind MeZeus Book:Childhood’s End Source: Childhood’s End
“It has not been the fashion to be scientific about religion, but it is necessary that we should be scientific; it is time that we examined ourselves as to our faith and tried to know what we believe and why, and on what we base our belief.” KnowsShouldBelieveReligionBeliefFashion Book:The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals Source: The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals
“Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.” KnowsMenMindMayLittlesHas BeensEndsMatterGovernmentReligionForceCan DoChurchFreedomResultsSubjectsFashionAmountNeededHolyAtheistTyrannyOppressionConquerMotiveBombsCensorshipSecrecyFree ManAtomic BombRacksEnd ResultsKeystones Author:Robert A. Heinlein