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The Battle Of Faiths

Posted in Quotes, Philosophy, Faith, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on June 9, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
    —     E. O. Wilson
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Four Kinds

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 20, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion.
    —     Mark Twain
It is higher and nobler to be kind.
    —     Mark Twain
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
    —     Mark Twain
Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink – under any circumstances.
    —     Mark Twain
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God Is Great!

Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged , , , , , , on May 10, 2026| Leave a Comment »

In some respects, science has far surpassed religion in delivering awe.  How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought!  The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant.  God must be even greater than we dreamed“?  Instead they say, “No, no, no!  My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.“
    —    Carl Sagan
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The Body’s Warning Signal

Posted in Education, Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 27, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Proponents of doctrinal religions — ones in which a particular body of belief is prized and infidels scorned — will be threatened by the courageous pursuit of knowledge.  We hear from such people that it may be dangerous to probe too deeply.  Many people have inherited their religion like their eye color:  they consider it not a thing to think very deeply about, and in any case beyond our control.  But those with a set of beliefs they profess to feel deeply about, which they have selected without an unbiased sifting through the facts and the alternatives, will feel uncomfortably challenged by searching questions.  Anger at queries about our beliefs is the body’s warning signal:  here lies unexamined and probably dangerous doctrinal baggage.
    —    Carl Sagan
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Look Past

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , on August 21, 2025| Leave a Comment »

If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi – do it with a sense of pride.  And do it the best you know how.  Be cognizant and sympathetic to the guy alongside, because he wants a place in the sun, too.  And always…  always look past his color, his creed, his religion and the shape of his ears.  Look for the whole person.  Judge him as the whole person.
    —    Rod Serling
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Ite, Missus Es

Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on May 10, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.
    —    H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
[Today’s title is Latin for:  “Go, you have been sent.”  The actual saying at the end of the Roman Catholic Mass (Latin version) is:  “Ite, missa est.”  Which translates to:  “Go, the Mass is ended,” or more literally, “Go, she (the Church) has been sent.”  In English, the common expression is:  “The Mass is ended.  Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.“
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Freedom Of Religion

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on August 21, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own.  It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige.  The more it obtains state support the greater it curtails human freedom.
    —     William O. Douglas
Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court
The freedom of religion cannot exist without a government that is free from religion (nor can the freedom of religion exist without the freedom to choose no religion at all).  True religious freedom depends on a secular government.
    ―     Andrew L Seidel
From his book: “The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American“
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I’m Still Learning The Alphabet

Posted in Faith, Music, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 16, 2024| Leave a Comment »

My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music.  If you live it, when you play there’s no problem because the music is part of the whole thing.  To be a musician is really something.  It goes very, very deep.  My music is the spiritual expression of what I am – my faith, my knowledge, my being.
    ―     John Coltrane
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Veneration

Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , on July 7, 2024| Leave a Comment »

This, then, was the religion that I was raised with:  veneration for human creativity and the power of ideas.
    —    Ray Kurzweil
From the prologue to his book:  “The Singularity Is Near“
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The Faith Hypothesis

Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , on June 5, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Those who raise questions about the God hypothesis and the soul hypothesis are by no means all atheists.  An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.  I know of no such compelling evidence.  Because God can be relegated to remote times and places and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great deal more about the universe than we do to be sure that no such God exists.  To be certain of the existence of God and to be certain of the nonexistence of God seem to me to be the confident extremes in a subject so riddled with doubt and uncertainty as to inspire very little confidence indeed.
 
    —    Carl Sagan
 
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Four For Thought

Posted in Education, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged , , , , , , , on June 4, 2024| Leave a Comment »

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.  This is a prescription for disaster.  We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
    —    Carl Sagan
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
    —    Carl Sagan
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
    —    Carl Sagan
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
    —    Carl Sagan
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Somewhat Different, Anyway

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 9, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Scientists believe that every occurrence, including the affairs of human beings, is due to the laws of nature.  Therefore a scientist cannot be inclined to believe that the course of events can be influenced by prayer, that is, by a supernaturally manifested wish.
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However, we must concede that our actual knowledge of these forces is imperfect, so that in the end the belief in the existence of a final, ultimate spirit rests on a kind of faith.  Such belief remains widespread even with the current achievements in science.
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But also, everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man.  In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is surely quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive.
    —     Albert Einstein
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Why Do You Think We Call It Faith?

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 2, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Men may believe what they cannot prove.  They may not be put to the proof of their religious doctrines or beliefs.  Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.
    —     William O. Douglas
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I Can’t Recall Either

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged , , , , , , on June 3, 2023| Leave a Comment »

In science it often happens that scientists say, “You know that’s a really good argument;  my position is mistaken,” and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again.  They really do it.  It doesn’t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful.  But it happens every day.  I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
    —    Carl Sagan
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I’ll Drink To That

Posted in Faith, Faith Family and Friends, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , on June 25, 2022| Leave a Comment »

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
    –    Thomas Paine
From:  “The Rights of Man“
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