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Quotes About Religion

To say that sex is not a 'need' is one of the most abominable lies perpetrated on humanity by the Christian church.
~ Laurence Galian
When human beings free themselves from the dust of the traditions and enter the clean space, they will see the brilliant face of the friend of God and benefit from his presence without any obstruction, in public. At that time ordinances of religion will become something else, and religion will attain its original form and everything will be different.
~ Laurence Galian
Because Western religion has created this image of the 'God of Good in Whom there is no Darkness,' a grand enantiodrama is occurring around the globe. The 'Light' has been overemphasized in religion, and they have sentenced its opposite characteristic to the dungeon of society's collective unconscious. Sometimes the repressed characteristic bursts forth wildly into daylight with lethal force.
~ Laurence Galian
Gnostics are not bound by a Catechism or a Bible. Gnosticism is ultimately your relationship to the Divine and no one has the right to tell you that your personal experience is right or wrong.
~ Laurence Galian
They {alien parasites} begin by invading the minds of individuals in government, military, medicine, finance, media, education, academia, secret societies and religion. They give these individuals what is essentially a computer virus. From these foxholes, they launch their spiritual warfare against the general population and against specific individuals.
~ Laurence Galian
People flock into churches to have the world explained to them in a neat little package. For most people, religion is chaos insurance. Religion lays down a template on the world so that people can try to make some sense of it. The problem is that people end up living in the template and shutting out reality altogether.
~ Laurence Galian
Because Western religion has created this image of the 'God of Good in Whom there is no Darkness,' a grand enantiodrama is occurring around the globe. The 'Light' has been overemphasized in religion, and they have sentenced its opposite characteristic to the dungeon of society's collective unconscious. Sometimes the repressed characteristic bursts forth wildly into daylight with a lethal force.
~ Laurence Galian
Constantine wanted to establish a world or universal religion, with himself at the head. During this council, he declared his divinity by stating that the God of Christians was his personal sponsor. He then replaced certain Christian religious practices of the time with familiar Roman Empire practices of sun worship along with other Pagan teachings from Syria and Persia.
~ Laurence Galian
The great error of the Catholic Church, the Protestant, Christian and Evangelical churches is that they preach a Christos devoid of his consort: Sophia.
~ Laurence Galian
The Shadow side of religion must be recognized and dealt with propitiously.
~ Laurence Galian
The rejection of the Shadow is one of the greatest failings of patriarchal religion. Life and Death are realities to our psyche. They are a package deal. Christianity tries to paint the Devil/Evil/Death as the enemy of God/Goddess/Life. Rather than giving the Devil his due, Christianity has created a bizarre and distorted image of the Shadow.
~ Laurence Galian
Orthodox religion poses a great danger to humanity, and that is why the magickian never allows him or her self to become trapped in this stagnant water. The great religions, the rituals of these religions, are only hints that once there stood on these banks one who flowed like water with the cosmos.
~ Laurence Galian
Religion is obsessed with nature, because religion fears nature. Thus, religion attempts to reign in and control nature, including the nature of human sexuality.
~ Laurence Galian
Religion is obsessed with nature, because religion fears nature.
~ Laurence Galian
It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.
~ Laurence Housman
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.
~ Laurence Housman
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.
~ Laurence J. Peter
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
~ Laurence Sterne
First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors, and where they separate, depend upon it, 'Tis for no other cause but quietness sake.
~ Laurence Sterne
This feeling that Jung had that if man lived his life religiously, if he lived his life symbolically, then it was almost as if what the theologians called God and my Zulus called the first spirit, the first spirit had passed over some of his power and some of his responsibilities to the human being and that the human being had a God-like task to perform in creation. And the extent to which he performed it, he derived his meaning.
~ Laurens van der Post
There aren't any Shakers in Shaker Heights," he said. "They all died out. Didn't believe in sex. They just named the town after them.
~ Celeste Ng
Jehovah's Witness are welcomed into my home...You gotta respect anybody who gets all dressed up in Sunday clothes and goes door-to-door on days so hot their high heels sink a half-inch into the pavement. The trick is to do all the talking yourself. Pretty soon, they'll look at their watches and say, 'Speaking of end times, wouldja look at what time it is now!
~ Celia Rivenbark
Avrupa Tanzimattan beri ayn? emelin kovalay?c?s?d?r: Türk ayd?n?nda mukaddesi öldürmek. Mukaddesi yani ?slamiyeti.
~ Cemil Meriç
?nsanlar, do?u?tan e?ittirler: kullukta, fanilikte e?itlik. Sonra, iman sayesinde yeni bir e?itlik kazan?rlar, karde? olurlar.
~ Cemil Meriç