I don't subscribe to organised religion. I've travelled enough to see that adherents of organised religion often attack adherents of other religions.
William T. Vollmann
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There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
Thomas More
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I think the most influential aspect of my work is to show that Judaism and Christianity exist in a continuity with archaic religions.
Rene Girard
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As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.
Juliana Hatfield
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Religions die slowly.
Franz Marc
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Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It's the only music that brings all people together, different races, different religions.
Burning Spear
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While few religious leaders and scholars would doubt the commonalities that exist among the various religious groups, the followers of these religions unfortunately struggle in their effort to peacefully coexist.
Alcee Hastings
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I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.'
Ravi Zacharias
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Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.
George C. Williams
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While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.
Daniel Goleman
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It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women.
Sally Quinn
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I know 'Vikings' isn't really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.
Madchen Amick
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
Hans Kung
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
B. F. Skinner
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I'm open to all religions. Respecting Scientology is just like respecting any other religious view.
Jesse Plemons
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I've been interested in Eastern religions since I went to college because I was trying to figure out where I stood with Catholicism.
Jeff Ament
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Religions have always adopted rich symbolic languages to signify the different aspects of their respective forms of faith and mythology.
Trevor Paglen
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It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.
Mary Douglas
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Fundamentalism takes different forms in different religions, but there is one striking similarity in all forms of fundamentalist thought. Each wishes dearly to hold in check all varieties of 'modern' or 'decadent' thinking.
Jay Parini
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Male circumcision has been practiced for thousands of years and is a deeply important ceremony for two major religions.
Brad Sherman
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The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
Thomas Paine
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As a boy, I found myself drawn to Arthurian legends, and then to Celtic mythology, and then further east into the mysticism of Asian religions.
Mark Frost
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As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very little.
James Wolfensohn
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