Quotes of: Organized-religion Keyword

The Ancestors were from Africa and entered into Australia 50,000 years ago. They would have eaten food from indigenous life from their area almost immediately. They harvest most of the day, and eat this food. The AM looks like a food source they alre...

Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction

The founder of a religion must be able to turn water into wine -- cure with a word the blind and lame, and raise with a simple touch the dead to life. It was necessary for him to demonstrate to the satisfaction of his barbarian disciple, that he was ...

Robert G. Ingersoll

The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature. For him neither the rule of human nor the rule of...

Albert Einstein

To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked brighter.

Culpa Innata

I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.

Choosing My Religion

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.

Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.

Culture and Value

Religion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all.

Cosmopolitan Theology: Reconstituting Planetary Hospitality, Neighbor-Love, and Solidarity in an Uneven World

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.

Democracy in America

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

Death with Interruptions

Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there.

Eat, Pray, Love

They are moved less by the direct presence of their gods than by the more indirect feeling that they would somehow like their gods to be present.

Eight Theories of Religion

Still amazes me that people spend more time researching a new vehicle than they do the religion they entrust their souls to.

Eternal Rider

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

The Future of an Illusion (The Standard Edition)

All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards.

Farewell to Reason

What the myth founds is a double existence between the upper world and the underworld: a dimension of death is introduced into life, and a dimension of life is introduced into death.

Greek Religion

I have a different GOD. I see it in the smile of others. My worship to make people happy. Love is my Religion.

GWG

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

Human, All Too Human

The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.

The Bells of Bruges

Lucia opened the door. "They say not to discuss politics and religion on the first date." “Well, then.” I gave her a huge smile. “We’re .

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