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Religion

«For when established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases.»
Author: Erik Erikson, Dr. | About: Religion, War
«Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.»
«Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition»
Author: Paul Keller (Journalist, Writer) | About: Faith, Religion | Keywords: euphemism, euphemisms
«Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error»
Author: Robert Owen | About: Belief, Mankind, Religion | Keywords: infancy, reflect, trained
«Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.»
«Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.»
«Even in darkness light dawns for the upright, for the gracious and compassionate and righteous man»
«For I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me»
Author: Bible | About: Christianity, Religion | Keywords: clothed, stranger, thirsty, visited
«For just as a body without spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead»
Author: Bible | About: Religion
«Every apostle or disciple, as much as they're running to follow their savior- they're running just as hard to escape something else.»