Of course, when you shut off your brain from rational analysis, any book is dangerous. Taking literally ancient parables from thousands of years ago is much more dangerous than playing with a loaded gun. Ancient scrawls, written by different authors in different centuries with different agendas--yeah, let's get mad literal about that.
The literalness problem is compounded in religion by the circular logic of not being allowed to question anything, or else you're lacking faith.
Tag: humor religion bible logic rationality biblical-literalism literalism
My personal savior is common sense. And as far as God goes, I prefer to believe in one that would want me to use the excellent brain he gave us all.
Bill MaherTag: religion common-sense
Isn't it time we asked ourselves, are we willing to accept any behavior codified within religious or cultural practice? Is there no line to be drawn? If honor killings are okay, then why not virgin sacrifices or cannibalism or sex with children outside the church? We have perversely taken our notion of tolerance to such extremes that we've become tolerant of intolerance.
Bill MaherTag: religion intolerance tolerance culture religious-extremism
Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.
Bill MaherTag: women history religion marriage bible inequality infidelity adultery objectification old-testament personhood property objectification-of-women
There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.
Sam HarrisTag: reason religion atheism reasoning reasonable
Creo que las personas no religiosas debemos alzar la voz ante los extremismos para que, en las religiones del mundo en las que dejaron tener cabida, no vuelvan a encontrar hueco. Y para que, de ser posible - aunque a lo peor no hay un de ser posible más loco que ése -, dejen de impregnarlo todo en tantos otros rincones de la tierra. No debemos colaborar con el silencio cómplice del que no se atreve a calificar de absurdas las creencias en divinidades.
Clemente García NovellaTag: religion
This green flowery rock-built earth, the trees, the mountains, rivers, many-sounding seas;—that great deep sea of azure that swims overhead; the winds sweeping through it; the black cloud fashioning itself together, now pouring out fire, now hail and rain; what is it? Ay, what? At bottom we do not yet know; we can never know at all. It is not by our superior insight that we escape the difficulty; it is by our superior levity, our inattention, our want of insight. It is by not thinking that we cease to wonder at it. Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form, is a wrappage of traditions, hearsays, mere words. We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it? Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film. This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
Thomas Carlyle...We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated out-flinging of desire, if religion was no more than self-delusion, what good was life? Faith had always given us answers to all things. But it all went down the drain with Freud and Darwin. We were and still are a lost people.
Ray BradburyTag: science art lost religion faith freud darwin
If we had spent our time on our children education rather than praying; we would have had a three times more educated people than the whole world's population.
M.F. MoonzajerTag: education religion atheism population praying
Christians are the salt of the earth...Nothing grows where they've been.
Donald HaysTag: religion american-literature arkansas southern-fiction
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