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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and t

Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem. – Karen Armstrong

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The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith. – Karen Armstrong

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Faith
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Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us. – Karen Armstrong

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Science
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A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. – Karen Armstrong

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Poetry
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For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties. – John C. Ransom

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When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied. – John Woolman

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Religion theme aside, most of the time Im in some sort of comedy and Im a straight man and its really just, lets wind this guy up and see him explode. – Colin Hanks

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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go. – Galileo Galilei

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I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

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The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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God

I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy. – Juno Temple

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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. – James Russell Lowell

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