Quotes of: Christian-religion Keyword

I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

Vivienne Westwood

Monotheism generally allows for no greys. Ideas are either true or false. Hence, although science develops out of the alchemy of the medieval Christian milieu (derived from Arabic alchemy, which was stimulated by the much earlier Chinese alchemy), sc...

The Deities Are Many: A Polytheistic Theology

Currently spirituality is at an ebb in the more advanced technological societies. This in part because memes that validate spiritual order tend to lose their credibility with time, and need to be recast in new forms again and again. At present we are...

The Evolving Self

Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too i...

The Age of Reason

I passed by General Zia's tomb and knew that I never would have become Muslim if I was raised in this country [Pakistan]. As a rebellious American adolescent, I had chosen Islam because it was the religion of Malcolm X, a language of resistance again...

Journey to the End of Islam

Proof then, has retreated in the face of belief. Science, once heralded as the arbiter of truth, has had its facade of objectivity punctured. Intellectuals may point to the uncertainty of Heisenberg, but generally this has more to do with the growing...

Rebels and Devils: The Psychology of Liberation

Barth was the first theologian to begin the criticism of religion...but he set in its place the positivist doctrine of revelation which says in effect, 'Take it or leave it': Virgin Birth, Trinity or anything else, everything which is an equally sign...

Letters and Papers from Prison

It is arguable that when Humanists, "Shook off," as people say, "the trammels of religion," and discovered things of this world as objects of veneration in their own right... they began to lose the finer appreciation of even the world itself. Thus to...

Purgatorio

Theology is just not important in Judaism, or in any other religion, really. There's no orthodoxy, as you have it in the Catholic Church. No complicated creeds to which everybody must subscribe. No infallible pronouncements by a pope. Nobody can tell...

Hyam Maccoby

If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a man praying for his enemies as he died for them, sacrificing for them, loving them - if that sinks into your heart of hearts,...

Timothy Keller

Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we wer...

C.S. Lewis

A Christian forgives, an idiot forgets.

Corsican

Happy is the people that is without history. And thrice is the people without sociology.

Enquiries Into Religion and Culture

They will become Godly when they will have God in their hearts.

The Religion of God

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

The Screwtape Letters

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

Selected Political Writings

The survival of religion is on the basis of torture and punishment; end of torture is end of religion.

M.F. Moonzajer

Religion was (is) always steps ahead of science; because religion lies and science can’t.

M.F. Moonzajer

There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?

Kerry Thornley

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

Jon Stewart