Quotes About Religion

El culto a Dios es como la extracción de combustibles fósiles -sostuvo uno de ellos-. Es una actividad de mentes cerradas y sin sentido, pero mucha gente inteligente la sigue practicando, porque ha invertido en ella demasiados recursos

Religions are not born from scratch. They grow from one another. Modern religion is a collage . . . an assimilated historical record of man's quest to understand the divine.

From out of the brain flowed a stream of religious images—God reaching out to infuse Adam with life, Prometheus crafting a primordial human out of mud, Brahma creating humans from different parts of his own body, an African god parting the clouds and lowering two humans to earth, a Norse god fashioning a man and a woman out of driftwood.

Halos, like much of Christian symbology, were borrowed from the ancient Egyptian religion of sun worship. Christianity is filled with examples of sun worship.

La religión es como un idioma o un vestido. Gravitamos alrededor de las prácticas en las que hemos sido educados. Al final, sin embargo, todos proclamamos lo mismo; que la vida tiene sentido, que nos sentimos agradecidos por el poder que nos ha creado.

From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics—the name Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of power struggles. Since the beginning of time, the ignorant had always screamed the loudest, herding the unsuspecting masses and forcing them to do their bidding.

the minister would say something like: "We come from God and we're going to God," and the biologist would respond, "We evolved from apes and we're going extinct." They will prove nothing except that we viewers will watch anything if it's sufficiently hyped.

La fe es universal. Son nuestros métodos específicos para comprenderla los que son arbitrarios. Hay personas que rezan a Jesús, otras que van a La Meca, y las hay que estudian partículas subatómicas. Sin embargo, al final lo que hacemos todos es buscar la verdad, aquello que es más grande que todos nosotros.

The day science substantiates God in a lab is the day people stop needing faith!

The cross," Langdon said, "was not a Christian symbol until the fourth century. Long before that, it was used by the Egyptians to represent the intersection of two dimensions—the human and the celestial. As above, so below. It was a visual representation of the juncture where man and God become one.

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In the 1600s," he said, talking faster now, "English was one language the Vatican had not yet embraced. They dealt in Italian, Latin, German, even Spanish and French, but English was totally foreign inside the Vatican. They considered English a polluted, free-thinkers' language for profane men like Chaucer and Shakespeare.

no hay que olvidar que, hace siglos, nuestra religión formó la Inquisición y mató a mujeres y niños inocentes en nombre de Dios. A causa de ello, hemos tenido que pedir perdón al mundo y también a nosotros mismos. Con el tiempo, sin embargo, hemos conseguido que las heridas cicatricen.

Have we become so spiritually bankrupt that we would rather believe in mathematical impossibility than in a power greater than us?

Silenzio! Será mejor que escuche. Durante dos milenios su Iglesia ha dominado la búsqueda de la verdad. Ha aplastado a sus opositores con mentiras y profecías funestas. Ha manipulado la verdad según sus necesidades y asesinado a quienes descubrían cosas que no convenían a su política. ¿Le sorprende acaso ser el objetivo de hombres ilustrados de todo el globo?

Origins of the Universe seminar that he finally posted a sign on his classroom door. In my classroom, T > 0. For all inquiries where T = 0, please visit the Religion Department.

Sólo hay dos escuelas de pensamiento sobre nuestro origen: la idea religiosa de que Dios nos creó completamente formados y el modelo darwiniano, según el cual surgimos del caldo primigenio y evolucionamos hasta convertirnos en seres humanos.

Martyrdom is at the heart of all religion.

When the Catholic Church first proposed the Big Bang Theory in 1927, the—" "I'm sorry?" Langdon interrupted, before he could stop himself. "You say the Big Bang was a Catholic idea?" Vittoria looked surprised by his question. "Of course. Proposed by a Catholic monk, Georges Lemaître, in 1927.

Jesus foi o feminista inicial. Pretendia que o futuro de sua igreja ficasse nas mãos de Maria Madalena.

No?" Winston's voice remained flat. "Then let me ask you this famous question: Would you rather live in a world without technology…or in a world without religion? Would you rather live without medicine, electricity, transportation, and antibiotics…or without zealots waging war over fictional tales and imaginary spirits?

A lo largo de la historia, las persona más peligrosas siempre habían sido los hombres De Dios...sobre todo cuando sus dioses se veían amenazados

Religion cannot claim morality as its own...

As are many equally improbable beliefs." Langdon often reminded his students that most modern religions included stories that did not hold up to scientific scrutiny: everything from Moses parting the Red Sea . . . to