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“Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The other half of the time he tries to tell us that the sick feeling we get in a situation is not the other person鈥檚 fault, rather it is our own hang-ups. A life filled with bias, hatred, judgment, insecurity, fear, delusion and self-righteousness can cloud the soul of anyone you meet. Our job is never to assume,instead it is to listen, communicate, ask questions then ask more, until we know the true depth of someone鈥檚 spirit.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“丕賱賲丐賲賳 賱丕 鬲鬲賲 賱賴 賱匕賴 亘賲毓氐賷賴 兀亘丿丕賸 亘賱 賱丕 賷購亘丕卮賭乇賴丕 廿賱丕 賵 丕賱丨夭賳 賷禺丕賱胤 賯賱亘賴 賵 賲鬲賶 禺賱丕 賯賱亘賴 賲賳 賴匕丕 丕賱丨夭賳 賮賱賷亘賰賷 毓賱賶 賲賵鬲 賯賱亘賴”
― 丕亘賳 賯賷賲 丕賱噩賵夭賷丞

“Everything turns in circles and spirals with the cosmic heart until infinity. Everything has a vibration that spirals inward or outward 鈥� and everything turns together in the same direction at the same time. This vibration keeps going: it becomes born and expands or closes and destructs 鈥� only to repeat the cycle again in opposite current. Like a lotus, it opens or closes, dies and is born again. Such is also the story of the sun and moon, of me and you. Nothing truly dies. All energy simply transforms.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“丕賱兀乇賵丕丨 賯爻賲丕賳: 兀乇賵丕丨 賲毓匕亘丞 賵兀乇賵丕丨 賲賳毓賲丞. 賮丕賱賲毓匕亘丞 賮賶 卮睾賱 亘賲丕 賴賶 賮賷賴 賲賳 丕賱毓匕丕亘 毓賳 丕賱鬲夭丕賵乇 賵丕賱鬲賱丕賯賶 賵丕賱兀乇賵丕丨 丕賱賲賳毓賲丞 丕賱賲乇爻賱丞 睾賷乇 丕賱賲丨亘賵爻丞 鬲鬲賱丕賯賶 賵鬲鬲夭丕賵乇 賵鬲鬲匕丕賰乇 賲丕 賰丕賳 賲賳賴丕 賮賶 丕賱丿賳賷丕賵賲丕 賷賰賵賳 賲賳 丕賴賱 丕賱丿賳賷丕, 賮鬲賰賵賳 賰賱 乇賵丨 賲毓 乇賮賷賯賴丕 丕賱匕賶 賴賵 毓賱賶 賲孬賱 毓賲賱賴丕 .”
― 丕亘賳 丕賱賯賷賲

“I'd like to start this week with a request, and this one goes out to the followers of the three Abrahamic religions: the Muslims, Christians, and Jews. It's just a little thing, really, but do you think that when you've finished smashing up the world and blowing each other to bits and demanding special privileges while you do it, do you think that maybe the rest of us could sort of have our planet back? I wouldn't ask, but I'm starting to think that there must be something written in the special books that each of you so enjoy referring to that it's ok to behave like special, petulant, pugnacious, pricks.

Forgive the alliteration, but your persistent, power-mad punch-ups are pissing me off. It's mainly the extremists obviously, but not exclusively. It's a lot of 'main-streamers' as well. Let me give you an example of what I'm talking about.

Muslims: listen up my bearded and veily friends! Calm down, ok? Stop blowing stuff up. Not everything that said about you is an attack on the prophet Mohammed and Allah that needs to end in the infidel being destroyed. Have a cup of tea, put on a Cat Stevens record, sit down and chill out. I mean seriously, what's wrong with a strongly-worded letter to The Times?

Christians: you and your churches don't get to be millionaires while other people have nothing at all. They're your bloody rules; either stick to them or abandon the faith. And stop persecuting and killing people you judge to be immoral. Oh, and stop pretending you're celibate -- it's a cover-up for being a gay or a nonce. Right, that's two ticked off.

Jews! I know you're god's 'Chosen People' and the rest of us are just whatever, but when Israel behaves like a violent, psychopathic bully and someone mentions it that doesn't make them antisemitic. And for the record, your troubled history is not a license to act with impunity now.”
― Marcus Brigstocke

“Verily, Allah enjoins justice, and the doing of good to others; and giving
like kindred; and forbids indecency, and manifest evil, and wrongful
transgression. (The Holy Quran, an-Nahl 16:91)

This verse sets forth three gradations of doing good.
The first is the doing of good in return for good.
This is the lowest gradation and even an average person
can easily acquire this gradation that he should do good
to those who do good to him.
The second gradation is a little more difficult than
the first, and that is to take the initiative in doing
good out of pure benevolence. This is the middle
grade. Most people act benevolently towards the
poor, but there is a hidden deficiency in benevolence,
that the person exercising benevolence is conscious
of it and desires gratitude or prayer in return for his
benevolence. If on any occasion the other person
should turn against him, he considers him ungrateful.
On occasion he reminds him of his benevolence or
puts some heavy burden upon him.

The third grade of doing good is graciousness as
between kindred. God Almighty directs that in this
grade there should be no idea of benevolence or any
desire for gratitude, but good should be done out of
such eager sympathy as, for instance, a mother does
good to her child. This is the highest grade of doing
good which cannot be exceeded. But God Almighty
has conditioned all these grades of doing good with
their appropriate time and place. The verse cited
above clearly indicates that if these virtues are not
exercised in their proper places they would become
vices.”
― Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

“I will not join the rat race because I'm not a rat. And I will not blindly follow a specific faith because I'm not a bat. The only race I'll take part in is for humans being humane. It's called the human race, and sadly it's got the least participants.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Piety
/pi鈥鈥y/ (modern definition)

1. When you use Christ鈥檚 teachings to put someone in their place out of anger and self-righteousness. It is the number two reason people leave the faith. The first is pride.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Next time someone tells me they believe in God, I鈥檒l say 鈥極h which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?鈥︹€� If they say 鈥楯ust God. I only believe in the one God,鈥� I鈥檒l point out that they are nearly as atheistic as me. I don鈥檛 believe in 2,870 gods, and they don鈥檛 believe in 2,869.”
― Ricky Gervais

“...true love is my religion...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“The world citizen is a small leaf on the giant tree of life. They do not see a difference between the branch they were born on and the remaining branches on the tree, because they understand well that we are are all connected to the same roots. The world citizen sees each section of the world as part of their arm, leg, eyes, and heart. They do not class, contain or separate themselves or their identity by ethnicity or religion -- because they see their existence as a small part of a greater whole. When asked about their religion, the world citizen simply replies: 'My heart.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Natural selection is not only a parsimonious, plausible and elegant solution; it is the only workable alternative to chance that has ever been suggested. Intelligent design suffers from exactly the same objection as chance. It is simply not a plausible solution to the riddle of statistical improbability. And the higher the improbability, the more implausible intelligent design becomes. Seen clearly, intelligent design will turn out to be a redoubling of the problem. Once again, this is because the designer himself (/herself/itself) immediately raises the bigger problem of his own origin. Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as a Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable than a Dutchman's Pipe. Far from terminating the vicious regress, God aggravates it with a vengeance.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“Careful. When you dabble too much with reason life becomes nothing but a process of dying.”
― Lucas Mascotto-Carbone

“鈥撀犘澬� 褉邪蟹胁械 薪械 谐芯胁芯褉懈褌 褝褌芯, 袚芯褋锌芯写懈, 芯 屑芯械泄 谢褞斜胁懈 泻 孝械斜械, 褔褌芯 褟 谐芯褌芯胁 锌褉懈薪械褋褌懈 胁 卸械褉褌胁褍 褋褘薪邪, 械写懈薪褋褌胁械薪薪芯谐芯 屑芯械谐芯, 锌芯 械写懈薪芯屑褍 泻邪锌褉懈蟹褍 孝胁芯械屑褍?
袠 芯褌胁械褔邪谢 械屑褍 袚芯褋锌芯写褜:
鈥撀犘傂� 谐芯胁芯褉懈褌 芯 褌芯屑, 褔褌芯 械褋褌褜 薪邪 褋胁械褌械 谢褞写懈, 泻芯褌芯褉褘械 谐芯褌芯胁褘 懈褋锌芯谢薪懈褌褜 褋邪屑芯械 懈写懈芯褌褋泻芯械 锌褉懈泻邪蟹邪薪懈械, 械褋谢懈 芯薪芯 锌褉芯懈蟹薪械褋械薪芯 褏芯褉芯褕芯 锌芯褋褌邪胁谢械薪薪褘屑 谐芯谢芯褋芯屑 褋 褋懈谢褜薪芯泄 褉械胁械褉斜械褉邪褑懈械泄.”
― Woody Allen, 楔褍褌泻懈 袚芯褋锌芯写邪

“Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally.”
― Ricky Gervais

“I therefore cite Albert Einstein, so much misrepresented, once again. He is addressing a correspondent who is trouble by yet another of those many misrepresentations:

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but expressed it clearly. if something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Years later he answered another query by stating:

I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“We ought to seek daily grace.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“And, substantially they hope to supplant the 鈥渄isciplining of the higher faculty of the imagination鈥� by what they call 鈥渆ducation for democracy.鈥� ...

The very banality of the expression helps to ensure its triumph. Who could be against education? Who could be against democracy? Yet the phrase begs two questions: What do you mean by 鈥渆ducation鈥�? And what do you mean by 鈥渄emocracy鈥�? The school of Dewey has long been fond of capturing words and turning them to their own purposes: they tried hard to capture 鈥渉umanism鈥�, and even laid siege to 鈥渞eligion鈥� Now I am convinced that if, by 鈥渆ducation,鈥� the champions of this slogan mean merely recreation, socialization, and a kind of custodial jurisdiction over young people, then they are deliberately perverting a word with a reasonably distinct historical meaning and making it into what Mr. Richard Weaver, in his book, "Ethics of Rhetoric鈥�, calls a "god-term"鈥攖hat is, a charismatic expression drained dry of any objective significance, but remaining an empty symbol intended to win unthinking applause”
― Russell Kirk, Academic Freedom: An Essay in Definition

“When I hear from people that religion doesn't hurt anything, I say, really? Well besides wars, the Crusades, the Inquisitions, 9-11, ethnic cleansing, the suppression of women, the suppression of homosexuals, fatwas, honor killings, suicide bombings, arranged marriages to minors, human sacrifice, burning witches, and systematic sex with children, I have a few little quibbles. And I forgot blowing up girl schools in Afghanistan”
― Bill Maher

“Pray, read and mediate on the Scripture.
These spiritual deeds are the greatest acts to self-development”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“If you don't live right with God by WALKING IN THE LIGHT, a deceptive will ever so slowly creep in to your life. This slow, seemingly insignificant drift will cause you to end up with 'the spirit of religion', whilst all along thinking you are right with God.”
― Mike Gorrie, . . . And Five Were Foolish

“Indeed, there was something hard and unforgiving and almost brutal among those who considered themselves the most piously stringent in their observance, something ugly and positively vicious in their unrelenting persecution of those who deviated from their standards.”
― Naomi Ragen, An Unorthodox Match

“If you believe that the world is coming to an end, perhaps any day now, does it not drain ones motivation to improve life on earth while we're here?”
― Bill Maher

“I got the idea that some of the things I was seeing around me were under the aegis of Obatala, the demiurge charged by Olodumare with the formation of humans from clay. Obtala did well at the task until he started drinking. As he drank more and more, he became inebriated, and began to fashion damaged human beings. The Yoruba believe that in this drunken state he made dwarfs, cripples, people missing limbs, and those burdened with debilitating illness. Olodumare had to reclaim the role he had delegated and finish the creation of humankind himself and, as a result, people who suffer from physical infirmities identify themselves as worshippers of Obatala. This is an interesting relationship with a god, one not of affection or praise but antagonism. They worship Obatala in accusation; it is he who has made them as they are. They wear white, which is his color, and the color of the palm wine he got drunk on.”
― Teju Cole, Open City

“This is not a book I could have imagined writing a dozen years ago. When an older couple from another town attempted to set up and lead a Bible club at my daughter's public elementary school in Southern California in 2009, they might as well have been alien visitors showing up at a beach party. The purpose of the club was to convince children as young as five that they would burn for an eternity if they failed to conform to a strict interpretation of the Christian faith. The club's organizers were offered free and better space in the evangelical church next door to our school, but they refused it; they insisted on holding the club in the public school because they knew the kids would think the message was coming from the school. They referred to our public school as their "mission field" and our children as "the harvest." ... As I researched the group behind these kindergarten missionaries, I saw that they were part of a national network of clubs. I soon discovered that this network was itself just one of many initiatives to insert reactionary religion into public schools across the country. Then I realized that these initiatives were the fruit of a nationally coordinated effort not merely to convert other people's children in the classroom but to undermine public education altogether. Belatedly, I understood that the conflict they provoked in our local community- -I was hardly the only parent who found their presence in the public school alarming was not an unintended consequence of their activity. It was of a piece with their plan to destroy confidence in our system of education and make way for a system of religious education more to their liking.”
― Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism

“The Son must have the taste of death forever in His mouth. The Trinity must be tainted by it; there must be a certain stench at the right hand of God the Father. The horror must be real.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi