If there were a god, don't you think he would have flicked Hitler's head off?
Before God could bring me to this place He has broken me a thousand times.
He'd been drinking in a bar downtown, when he thought he heard a choir of angels singing in the Tiki Lounge. And that's when he got religion.
The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God - let him go to the Bible. . . . I said that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible, authorized, regulated, and recognized from Genesis to Revelation. . . . Slavery existed then in the earliest ages, and among the chosen people of God; and in Revelation we are told that it shall exist till the end of time shall come. You find it in the Old and New Testaments - in the prophecies, psalms, and the epistles of Paul; you find it recognized - sanctioned everywhere.
Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.
I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.
Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake; but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere of the same religion on all points.
No problem is more crucial for a naturalistic view of the world than the mind-body problem.
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.
Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others.
True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.
The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.
What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.
[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.
At what point, 2,000 years on from the life of Jesus, do we need a refresher course? Another 2,000 years? Imagine 100,000 years’ time – would the story of Moses’ burning bush amaze a generation laden with unimaginable scientific and technological wonders? Here lies religion’s biggest quandary. While science is squeezing the life out of God, how is religion going to muster a counterattack from here?
Any religion is a perspective upon existence.
He said, first let's just unzip your religion down.
