“When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which is nothing more than our frightened refuge into propitiation of a Creator we do not understand? A detective story, the supreme Who-done-it, written in indecipherable hieroglyphics, no Rosetta stone supplied by the consummate Mystifier to tease us poor fumbling unravellers of his plot.” NeedsDoneStoriesReligionSpiritualityWomenPoorWrittenStageStrangeDevelopmentWorshipStonesNotionCreatorSupremeArisePlotFrightenedRefugeDetectivesTeaseDetective StoriesHieroglyphicsPropitiationRosetta Stone Book:No Signposts in the Sea Source: No Signposts in the Sea
“In a way, being a Mormon prepares you to deal with science fiction, because we live simultaneously in two very different cultures. The result is that we all know what it's like to be strangers in a strange land. It's not just a coincidence that there are so many effective Mormon science fiction writers. We don't regard being an alien as an alien experience. But it also means that we're not surprised when people don't understand what we're saying or what we think.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayMeanTwoDifferentScienceReligionCultureSpaceResultsDealsFictionTechnologyLandStrangeRegardScience FictionStrangerIdeologyAliensCoincidenceFiction WritersDifferent CulturesStranger In A Strange Land Author:Orson Scott Card
“That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.” SaidReasonReligionSidesLinesStrangeGeniusPagesRevelationsPrematureOne LineQuintessence Author:Horace Walpole
“René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This [is] another instance of the strange mixture of religion and gallantry in those ages.” AgeReligionFoundStrangeReturnInstanceWormsMixturesMistressCorpsesTombsJerusalemPilgrimageGallantry Author:Horace Walpole
“We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.” PeopleReligionObjectsStrangeHolySacredListsDespiseReverencePaleShockedInconsistencySacred Things Book:Following the Equator: Source: Following the Equator:
“strange, there's so much religion in the world, but only enough to make us fight over who is right, not enough to make us love one another.” WorldLoveEnoughReligionFightingStrangeLove One Another Author:Margaret Cho