Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest – the conflict of opinion of religion or of race.
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest – the conflict of opinion of religion or of race.
Tag: famous quotes about religion
Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.
Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.
Contradictory to my religion I think is journalism.
Contradictory to my religion I think is journalism.
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society and cast off all regard to religion their case is much to be pitied.
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society and cast off all regard to religion their case is much to be pitied.
The advent of a new religion making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high is not a frequent occurrence.
The advent of a new religion making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high is not a frequent occurrence.
I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular liberal people I ignored it for a long time. Lately of course just from a political perspective it's impossible to ignore.
I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular liberal people I ignored it for a long time. Lately of course just from a political perspective it's impossible to ignore.
I have a strong belief in God… I find religion to be a very personal thing… I am also very spiritual.
I have a strong belief in God… I find religion to be a very personal thing… I am also very spiritual.
I've been a little bit obsessed with religion without being a religious person for about a decade.
I've been a little bit obsessed with religion without being a religious person for about a decade.
They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.
They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.
For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others He altogether ceases to be worshipped since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.
For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others He altogether ceases to be worshipped since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.
So obviously any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior and even sometimes consequences and they don't want to hear any of that.
So obviously any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior and even sometimes consequences and they don't want to hear any of that.