Even in Paradise, if the gates are locked from the outside, it is a prison.
“Even in Paradise, if the gates are locked from the outside, it is a prison.”
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Even in Paradise, if the gates are locked from the outside, it is a prison.
“Even in Paradise, if the gates are locked from the outside, it is a prison.”
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“Even in Paradise, if the gates are locked from the outside, it is a prison.”
“If any authority should be able to justify itself, if any authority should be able to answer the question "by what right?" with something more than the circular assertion of its own power, it is the authority that claims to be perfectly rational, perfectly just, and the source of all goodness. And yet, it is precisely this authority that most often answers the question 'Why?' with 'Because I AM.”
“The question of whether God exists is ontological and likely unanswerable. The question of whether God has the right to rule is political and practically answerable. We have been answering the wrong question.”
“If Hell is the price of sovereignty, then Hell is the only place where human dignity is fully realized.”
“To speak is to judge”
“Religion and ethics were not always - or even frequently - mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging relativism often deflected the worst aspects of contemporary culture or prejudices rather than a system which both man and God could live under with a sense of real justice.”
“I believe religion is a branch of spirituality, often misinterpreted and twisted to suit people's ideas. In truth, religion and spirituality are meant to co-exist happily.”
“Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.”
“In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worship as the solution. With less than success. Not only had they died as quickly as the rest of the people, but they had died with terror in their hearts, with a mortal dread flowing in their very veins.”
“إن الدين الذي يريد أن يستبدل التفكير الحر بأسرار صوفية ، وأن يستبدل الحقيقة العلمية بعقائد جامدة ، والفاعلية الإجتماعية بطقوس ، لابد أن يصطدم بالعلم. والدين الصحيح - على عكس هذا - فهو متسق مع العلم. وكثير من العلماء الكبار يسود عندهم الإعتراف بنوع من الوحدانية. وفوق هذا يستطيع العلم أن يساعدالدين في محاربة المعتقدات الخرافية ، فإذا إنفصلا يرتكس الدين في التخلف ويتجه العلم نخو الإلحاد.”