St. Patrick, bringing the religion to Ireland, this is what we should celebrate.
“St. Patrick, bringing the religion to Ireland, this is what we should celebrate.”
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St. Patrick, bringing the religion to Ireland, this is what we should celebrate.
“St. Patrick, bringing the religion to Ireland, this is what we should celebrate.”
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“St. Patrick, bringing the religion to Ireland, this is what we should celebrate.”
“People who think I have insulted Ireland or Limerick or my family have not read the book!”
“When I read about Joyce, I realised that there was no eight-till-one in his life: it was 24 hours a day for him.”
“I've had experiences on both sides of the ocean and various classrooms and bedrooms around New York.”
“I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.”
“I had moments with my father that were exquisite - the stories he told me about Cuchulain, the mythological Irish warrior, are still magical to me.”
“To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.”
“The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's image; so that there can be no church whose central teachings are based on it. Hence it is precisely among the heretics of every age that we find men who were filled with this highest kind of religious feeling and were in many cases regarded by their contemporaries as atheists, sometimes also as saints. Looked at in this light, men like Democritus, Francis of Assisi, and Spinoza are closely akin to one another.”
“The clothes have no emperor.”
“The Bible looks like it started out as a game of mad libs.”
“We are all born agnostics. Atheism and theism is sold to us.”
“Not a believer in the mosque am I,”