Religion seeks to lift us from everyday matter towards spirit, while magic seeks rather to bring spirit down into everyday matter. While religion often reflects a 'quest for meaning', magic is more about 'sowing seeds of meaning'.
Religion and Science are paths of denial, in the sense that a scientific statement should be one capable of being disproved, while a religious statement should be capable of being disbelieved.
We shall see that magic does not deny truth, it positively embraces truth as a crutch to assist belief, but it equall embraces falsehood - and that makes it unacceptable in scientific culture. Magic embraces goodness, but it also embraces evil - and that makes it disreputable in religious eyes. Magic embraces beauty and it also embraces ugliness - and that can make it seem kitsch or 'cheesy' in artistic eyes.
La religion du Crucifié était une religion comme une autre, qui enseignait que l'amour et le meurtre étaient inextricablement liés l'un à l'autre et qu'à la fin, Dieu finissait toujours par boire du sang. (Les Petites Sœurs d'Eluria)
Life is indeed short so eating dessert first is an appropriate religion for many.
The Jews are not good people. I don’t know why, but they’re just not. Maybe it’s the fucking victimhood and self-pity they keep passing down from generation from generation. And they lie a lot. There are exceptions, but in general, they are not good people. What we should really do is either give Iran some nukes so the stupid Jews stop torturing Palestinians and stealing their shit, or maybe just put them ALL on a little reservation in like Ukraine or some shit, and treat them like the Indians, or little kids. 24 hours surveillance and make sure they don’t make too many babies, which they often do. Sounds about right to me.
Even though I scoffed at the use of alcohol or recreational drugs as coping mechanisms for the pains of the world; in the David and Goliath battle of me against the globe, these pills are the armour that allow me to gallantly storm the ramparts of society.
Uncle Fawzi said I was not to become a martyr. He said I was too smart and the homeland needed me alive.
Trust me: If God exists, he'll know I'm faking it.
The visionary impulse giving rise to apocalyptic eschatology tends to be strongest among those embracing the prophetic promise of Yahweh's restoration of the faithful but at the same time witnessing the political and cultic structures of their nation falling into the hands of adversaries, thereby vitiating the possibility of fulfillment within the existing order of things. The pragmatic or realistic impulse tends to be strongest among those exercising control over political and religious structures; they often actively oppose the visionaries, viewing them as a threat to their position of leadership.
God accepts whatever is offered with love, whether it is a meal, a piece of clothing, a chant (mantra), a thought, or the soul (jiva).
Differences between humans are not a reason to be separated, but to unite and share what we know in our ways
Countless gods filled countless gaps,” Langdon said. “And yet, over the centuries, scientific knowledge increased.” A collage of mathematical and technical symbols flooded the sky overhead. “As the gaps in our understanding of the natural world gradually disappeared, our pantheon of gods began to shrink.
If you have been converted easily, or following religion of your ancestors don't think you are an innocent, you are a monkey with a fragile identity
Nothing exists unless Something exists.
My life is what I make of it.
Humor is next to Godliness.
When one considers such ancient times one's only recourse is the language of poetry. Thus legends, myths, creation accounts, history. All are no more than stories shaped to justify the present appearance of things.
Manusia sekarang lebih percaya kata manusia daripada firman Tuhannya.
Religion is the nurture of backbiting tales vomited by authoritarians, eaten by subalterns.
