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Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family. Gregory Bateson

Family Training Members Religious Outside Course Source Families Get Any

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. Hannah Arendt

Day Political Defiance Secular World-Wide One Day Religious Outstanding Well Decade Authority May Established Social Event Last Last Decade Phenomenon

State-sanctioned marriage is a civil contract, period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey. Harvey Fierstein

Legal Marriage Value Judgment Nothing Meeting Minds Those Harvey Moral Religious Civil Entities Rite Between Steve Parties Period Contract Act Eve Even Agreement Adam Adam And Eve Consenting Two

I hope I never get so old I get religious. Ingmar Bergman

Hope Religion Old Religious Never Get

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. Isaac Bashevis Singer

Religion Doubt Religious Part Were Thinkers

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world. J. R. R. Tolkien

Truth Art World Myth Reflect Moral Must Solution Religious Primary Contain Known Real Error Form Real World Explicit Elements

Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience. James Weldon Johnson

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A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others. Jena Malone

Love Friendship You Respect Yourself Value Others Respecting Religious Religious Leaders About Buddha Leaders Powerful Tibetan Talking Acceptable Lot Same Same Things Really Things Jesus Monks

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other. Jimmy Carter

Service God You Conflict Political Will Duty Other Religious Religious Belief Never Divorce Between Any Public Public Service Belief Violate

I am trying to understand what it means to be a Christian without being religious. John Shelby Spong

Christian Religious Without Understand Am Trying Being Means

Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain why there is so much suffering, misfortune and misery in the world. Julian Baggini

You Suffering World Whatever Believe Universe Benign Religious Some Point Misery Misfortune Forces Governed Explain Much Persuasion Your Why

Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place. Karen Armstrong

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When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, shouldn't that be a subject for discussion and debate? Lawrence M. Krauss

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There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. Lawrence Wright

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If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues. Madeleine Albright

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Awakenings occur when we lose faith in the viability of our institutions and the authority of our leaders. Religious and spiritual awakening gives people a new vision of themselves, which is then transplanted into social action. Marilyn Ferguson

Do we want a multicultural society, following the model of the English-speaking world, where fundamental Islam is progressing and we see major religious claims, or do we want an independent nation, with people able to control their own destiny, or do we accept to be a region managed by the technocrats of the European Union? Marine Le Pen

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I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious. Mika

Religion Religious Particularly Fascinated

The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected. Mike Ferguson

Freedom Character Democracy Liberty Ugly Values Anti-Semitism Everyone Respected Religious Hateful Religious Freedom Supposed Particularly Tide Shocks Where Stain Who Growing Acts Conscious

People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead. Nathan Myhrvold

Saying Time You People Political Earth Relentlessly Scale Astronomy Religious Religious Leaders Insignificance Bubble Advances Instead Leaders Over Celestial Get Stopped Cranky Burst Turning Fortunately Activists Reinforced Utter

Only Jesus has prophecies made hundreds of years in advance made literally true. Only He did miracles; only His immediate followers claimed He died and rose from the dead, so in comparison, He comes out superior to other great religious leaders. Norman Geisler

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