And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you’re going to repeat it and if you’re burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don’t get it, you’re missing the whole point.
Category: religion
Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.
Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao’s China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup.
Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.
Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.
If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
It’s also reflective of a young person’s religion or faith in that it’s highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I’m the same: On one hand, I pray on the other hand, I don’t believe. I am constantly between the two.