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“Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.”

Giving Humans Doe Philosophy Shows Religion Heaven Poor Levels Rich Equal Standards Unhappy Enjoyment Aspire Hereafter Rich And Poor Dealings

Book:The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller

Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller

“The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man. But it is a lovely work if you can stomach it.”

Source: Time Enough for Love

“It is with a rush of home-sickness that the thought of death presents itself.... Such sentiment is the eternal stock of all religions, modified indeed by changes of time and place, but indestructible, because its root is so deep in the earth of man's nature. The breath of religious initiators passes over them; a few "rise up with wings as eagles" [Isaiah 40:31], but the broad level of religious life is not permanently changed. Religious progress, like all purely spiritual progress, is confined to a few.”

“All religions upon the earth are necessary because there are people who need what they teach. ... Each church fulfills spiritual needs that perhaps others cannot fill. No one church can fulfill everybody's needs at every level.”

People Needs Earth Spiritual Religion Church Levels Teach

Author:Betty Eadie

“The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day. This is why people of different religions can generally live in peace. At some level, we all suspect that other people don't believe their own religion any more than we believe ours.”

People Believe Humans Different Helping Religion Can Do Levels Picks Don't Believe Delusion Suspects Different Religions

Book:God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

Source: God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

“The same comparison holds true within the United States itself: Southern and Midwestern states, characterized by the highest levels of religious literalism, are especially plagued by [high rates of homicide, abortion, teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, and infant mortality], while the comparatively secular states of the Northeast conform to European standards.”

“Countries with high levels of atheism are . . . the most charitable both in terms of the percentage of their wealth they devote to social welfare programs and the percentage they give in aid to the developing world.”

World Giving Country Religion Social Term Wealth Levels Atheism Program Aids Developing Welfare Percentages Charitable High Level Social Welfare Welfare Programs

Author:Sam Harris

“Christians assert that because there is fundamental weirdness at the quantum level of the very very small one must pretend to know things one does not know, aka have faith.”

Knows Doe Christian Religion Levels Fundamentals Have Faith Quantum Weirdness Aka

Author:Peter Boghossian

“The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.”

Life Giving Humans Littles Science Religion Universe Levels Money Effort Education Grace Atheism Morality Tragedy Lifts Human Life Stubborn Nonconformity Farce Science Physics

Book:Facing Up

Source: Facing Up