“We have lost a very important religious figure who dedicated his life to peace and justice for all. [on the death of Pope John Paul II” ImportantLostReligiousJusticeFiguresDedicatedPopePeace And JusticeJohn PaulJohn Paul IiJustice For AllPope John Paul Author:Mahmoud Abbas
“Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects of the unknown have from the first been captured and formalised by conventional religious rituals, it has fallen to the lot of the darker and more maleficent side of cosmic mystery to figure chiefly in our popular supernatural folklore.” FirstsFeelingsPainRememberSidesReligiousPleasureMysteryFiguresAspectFallenRitualCosmicConventionalCapturedMenaceFolkloreReligious RitualsMaleficent Book:The Complete Fiction Collection vol III Source: The Complete Fiction Collection vol III
“Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion that it could, in effect, be made illegal to imply ridicule of a religion or to lampoon religious figures.” MadeChristianReligiousMy OwnCareersAtheismEffectsFiguresNotionPositive AtheismBackgroundsIllegalRidiculeAghast Author:Rowan Atkinson
“[On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and the love of life - rather than death and the fear of death - were dominant in society as well as art.” IfsMenGivingWellsArtReligionReligiousDyingFiguresBirthCrossesAncientOur TimeLife And DeathLove LifeDominantFear Of DeathUnreasonableVenusGiving Birth Author:Riane Eisler
“Right now, the technological world plus God or spirituality is evolving. I think America has become a little bit too corrupt, government's a little too corrupt, too greedy. Many corporations are too greedy. The labor unions are too greedy. That effects charities and religious organizations. I just think it's greed. That's why, in 1985, I had to figure out how to give before I received. The more I focus on giving, for less and less, the more and more I make.” ThinkingWorldGivingLittlesGovernmentAmericaSpiritualityBitsReligiousFocusEffectsFiguresRight NowLittle BitLaborOrganizationUnionsCharityGreedEvolveCorporationsPlusTechnologicalGreedyLabor UnionCorrupt Government Author:Robert Kiyosaki
“Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God.” WorldHomeOrderThreeReligiousChristianityFiguresClaimsRaisedIslamPursueFascinatingRejectedJudaismAbrahamRelationship With GodPersonal RelationshipsChristianity And IslamWorld ReligionsPatriarchPersonal Relationship With God Author:Anne Graham Lotz
“Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it's definitely never boring.” ReligiousFiguresBoringChosenMiceColony Author:Mira Grant
“The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it could not but happen that, in the course of ages, events would now and then turn up to which some of these vague rhapsodies might be accommodated by the aid of allegories, figures, types, and other tricks upon words, they have not only preserved their credit with the Jews of all subsequent times, but are the foundation of much of the religions of those who have schismatised from them.” MightHappensAgeTurnsCoursesImaginationReligiousAtheismSpecialEventsFiguresCommunicationTypeFoundationJewCreditPositive AtheismAidsTricksCodeNow And ThenVagueDeitiesAllegory Book:Letters Source: Letters
“Concerning First Amendment fetishism - A federal subsidy for a photo of a crucifix suspended in a jar of urine is fine, but religious figures on stamps are offensive.” FirstsChristianReligiousFiguresFineAmendmentsOffensiveStampsFirst AmendmentJarsSuspendedSubsidies Author:Don Feder
“Some religions believe that there's a hierarchy, that you don't have a connection, but you must go through the shaman or the priest or whoever the religious leader is. And that's what surprises me, that some people who find a huge value in these kinds of systems also seem to enjoy ILLUSIONS. I can't figure it out.” PeopleBelieveKindI CanSeemsValuesEnjoyReligiousLeaderFiguresHugeIllusionConnectionsSurprisePriestsHierarchySurprise MeReligious Leaders Author:Richard Bach