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“Wicca has been, up until the past decade or so, a closed religion, but no more.”

Has Beens Past Religion Decades

Book:Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner

Source: Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner

“What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.”

Today Past Religion Christianity Needed Insight Prophet Scholar Prophetic

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.”

Past Religion Order Silence Eternal Males Dreary

Book:Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation

Source: Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation

“when Christian theology becomes traditionalism and men fail to hold and use it as they do a living language, it becomes an obstacle, not a help to religious conviction. To the greatest of the early Fathers and the great scholastics theology was a language which, like all language, had a grammar and a vocabulary from the past, but which they used to express all the knowledge and experience of their own time as well.”

“When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas which belong to the past, I feel how great the need is still of a real interest in the religion which builds up character, teaches brotherly love, and opens up to the seeker such a world of usefulness and the beauty of holiness.”

“The past is another planet.”

Past Science Religion Planets

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one God away from total agreement.”

Years Humans God Funny Past Religion Differences Atheism Atheist Believer Agreement Skepticism Skeptical Funny Atheist

Author:Michael Shermer

“Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.”

Seems Today Past Remember Religion Church Personality Catholic Rewards Ill Violent Obsessed Catholic Church Sexually Remembering The Past

Author:Matthew Fox

“That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest impediment to our building a global civilization.”

May Doe Past Religion Possibility Building Civilization Function Impediments

Book:Letter to a Christian Nation

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

“And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.”

Source: James Madison's

“The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster cruel vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging three headed beast like god one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes fools and hypocrites.”