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I also wanted t do a film with a religious motif, a film about miracles. At the same time, I wanted to do a completely naturalistic film. Lars Trier
religious style looks
Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing. Rob Sheffield
religious book careers
At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction. Richard Paul Evans
religious compassion giving
Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good.
religious philosophical adventure
No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race. Richard P. Feynman
religious knowledge people
Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests." Richard Dawkins
religious religion useless
Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological propensity which in other circumstances is, or once was, useful.
religious thinking opposites
If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false (knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan), you are the victim of childhood indoctrination.
religious giving-up children
I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical literacy. Both those things, by the way, I suspect will prepare a child to give up religion. If you are taught comparative religion, you are more likely to realise that there are other religions than the one you have been brought up in. And if you are if you are taught to read the bible, I can think of almost nothing more calculated to turn you off religion.
religions standard wants
He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin. Matt Stone
religion atheism cosmos
Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
religion firsts needs
Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted. William James
religion needs heavenly
Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired. William Cowper
religion unhappy dangerous
Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy. Robert Southey
religion atheism firsts
(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment. Sandra Day O'Connor
religion gone disunity
Everywhere religion has gone it has created disunity. Neale Donald Walsch
religion world neurosis
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. Marcel Proust
religion easier dies
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely. Jorge Luis Borges
atheism world may
We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way. William Howard Taft
atheism communism natural
Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism. Vladimir Lenin
atheism propaganda program
Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
atheism sun tomorrow
No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. Robert M. Pirsig
atheism matter responsible
Who made God? Doesn't matter. We are not responsible to a hypothetical maker of God but to our maker - God. Walter Martin
atheism positive-atheism
What can I hope when all is right? Voltaire
atheism screens repressed
Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion. Wilhelm Stekel
atheism today firsts
Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed. Walter F. Mondale
atheism malice preaching
The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching. John Adams