Quotes About Religion

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the Orphic Egg. Orphism was the mystery religion that gave rise to the Dionysian mysteries.

Germanic mythology, reinforced by all sorts of occult ideas, evidently became for him a kind of substitute religion.

THAT NO ONE knows what happened to Jesus's foreskin is particularly interesting because there used to be upwards of a dozen in circulation.

The always popular notion that the United States is in "moral decline" (a phrase favored in the pulpits and the press of both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries) rests on the assumption that Americans used to be far more religious and should strive to return to their former fidelity.

January 20, 2009, was also the first time a newly elected president used the occasion sometimes called a secular sermon to the nation to give voice to the diversity of religious life among its people. "We are a nation of Christians and Muslims," Obama said, "Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth.

I had been a religion major, with a focus on scriptural languages, and upon receiving my degree, felt qualified to do--nothing.

And if there is a devil,/ Then there must be a god.

you should never bet money on a boxer who crosses himself before a fight, because any fighter relying on the grace of god is a dead duck.

This Christendom, this greatest pestilence which could have befallen us in history, which has weakened us for every conflict, we must finish with.

What if Jesus was not offering his followers an ethical system to follow, but rather was inviting them to enter into a life of love that transcends ethics, a life of liberty that dwells beyond religious laws?

In contrast to the modern view that religious doubt is something to reject, fear or merely tolerate, doubt not only can be seen as an inevitable aspect of our humanity but also can be celebrated as a vital part of faith. Doubt has often been disparaged, or merely tolerated, because it is seen as leading to an inert state of undecidability in which nothing can be believed or acted upon. Yet in reality it is only in the midst of undecidability that real decisions can be made.

Yet perhaps it is precisely this that we are being called to: engaging in that most difficult task of putting our religion to death so that a religion without religion can spring forth.

No other religion in the world reveals a personal God who loves us for who we are, not what we do.

Jesus shows us that healthy Christians do not avoid conflict. His life was filled with it! He was in regular conflict with the religious leaders, the crowds, the disciples—even his own family. Out of a desire to bring true peace, Jesus disrupted the false peace all around him. He refused to "spiritualize away" conflict. 8.

Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?

Faith cannot tell us who is right and who is wrong, because each will simply assert that his or her faith is the true one.

Repetition plus translation plus generalization results, with the correct calculation, in clarification. If there is such a thing as 'progress in religion', it can only manifest itself as increasing explicitness.

Está enojado por la noticia de que el ejército israelita solo mató a todos los hombres, tomando prisioneros a las mujeres y los niños. En su celo, alimentado por la conciencia del pacto, Moisés insiste en matar a todos los niños y a las mujeres adultas, perdonando solo a las niñas vírgenes: "Pero a todas las niñas entre las mujeres que no hayan conocido varón, las dejaréis con vida para vosotros

In Nietzsche's usage, the word 'Christianity' does not even refer primarily to the religion; using it like a code word, he is thinking more of a particular religio-metaphysically influenced disposition, an ascetically (in the penitent and self-denying sense) defined attitude to the world, an unfortunate form of life deferral, focus on the hereafter and quarrel with secular facts

And Judas Iscariot's name continues in the twenty-first century to represent a crushing rebuke, a despicable traitor, as in the controversialist Lady Gaga's 2011 single, 'Judas', about being in love with a bad 'un. 'Jesus is my virtue', she sings in a promotional video bursting with religious imagery, 'and Judas is the demon I cling to'.

If people are forced to suppress the emotion of love for their fellow human beings then they certainly can't have love for anything else, including God.

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.