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Memories of the past are what drive us, whether to a life of beauty or a life of insanity is up to us.

Menschen haben das Recht, anders zu sein - sogar radikal anders -, vorausgesetzt sie fügen anderen durch ihre Taten keinen Schaden zu.

Men corrupted religion; and a man's religious choice didn't matter in the least if it was his path to decency and remembering his fellow man.

Men die in battle; women die in childbirth.

Men have sacrificed so much for their beliefs. Country. Kings. Queens. Political systems. God. Love . It doesn’t seem very noble to simply let something you believe in, someone you love, just walk away. To give up without a fight.

Men of culture should make scholarship more practical and less academic, and if they do so, they will in fact be working to transform the reality they present in their discourses

Mental slavery of religious leader is more dangerous and blind than the slavery of political leader Because the political leader promise to turn the country into God's heaven But religious leader promise to take followers directly into God's Heaven

Mercy will always be greater than any sin, no one can put a limit on the love of the all-forgiving God. Just by looking at him, just raising our eyes from ourselves and our wounds, we leave an opening for the action of his grace. Jesus performs miracles with our sins, with what we are, with our nothingness, with our wretchedness.

Mentor Me: ...the crossroads and convergence of where science, metaphysics, religion, and utopian society intersect.

Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it. Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells In being deprived of everlasting bliss?

Men write Bibles. God doesn't. God writes in stars and worlds and seasons and Hudson Rivers and beautiful women. Creation is the good book.

Mercy. Do any of the gods care about such things or only that their contracts and agreements are fulfilled?

Mientra que la revolución agrícola dio origen a las relisgiones teístas, la revolución científica dio origen a las religiones humanistas, en las que los humanos sustituyeron a los dioses

Me, when it comes to religion, I have no God. When I'm cool, I don't need anyone, and when I'm feeling shitty and this big empty hole opens up inside me, I just know there's never been a god that could fill it and there never will be.

Mike wasn't religious, but it was pretty cool to imagine a superghost carrying you when shit got a little too real.

mi opinión del hecho mismo empezó a modificarse, y con pensamientos mas fríos y serenos empecé a considerar qué era lo que iba a acometer; qué autoridad o misión tenía yo para pretender ser juez y verdugo de aquellos hombres, como criminales, a quienes el Cielo había creído oportuno a lo largo de tantas generaciones tolerar dejándoles impunes, de modo que siguiesen así y fuesen, como lo eran, verdugos de Sus juicios, los unos para los otros; hasta qué punto me habían perjudicado aquellos seres, y qué derecho tenía yo a mezclarme en luchas sangrientas y derramar sangre como ellos lo hacían entre sí. Muy a menudo debatí esta cuestión conmigo mismo en los siguientes términos: ¿Cómo sé yo el juicio de Dios en este caso particular?

Miracles begin where science ends.

Mi religión es la mejor, mi nación es la mejor, mi idioma es el mejor, el color de mi piel es el mejor, y así sucesivamente. Uno puede sentirse orgulloso al decir todas estas cosas, pero ese orgullo termina convirtiéndose en la causa de todos los conflictos entre humanos.

Miracles' rely on their observer’s ignorance. 'Perfection' relies on the observer’s failure to notice the observed’s defects.

Mithorden said it well," she said finally. "It's worshipping death. They say they follow light. But, in the end, they're really following desolation, division, the end of things. You should hear their prophecies -- war, destruction, only special chosen people are spared." She felt sad and angry. Worse, she wondered to what ends people who believed these things would go to assert their views.

Misstraue jedem Politiker, jedem Regierungs- oder Staatschef, der seine Religion zum Instrument macht. Halte Abstand von solchen Politikern, die ihre auf das Jenseits orientierte Religion und ihre diesseitige Politik miteinander vermischen.

Mit der Dialogfähigkeit ist es nicht nötig, vom Bewährten abzurücken, gleichwohl es zur Stunde an allen Glaubensvertretern ist, der herben Enttäuschung ihrer Anhänger Halt zu gebieten und die verlorenen Schafe wieder in den Schoß ihrer Gemeinden zurückzuholen, in anderen Worten Religion als Marktmodell des Nutzens zu begreifen.

MISUNDERSTANDING" arises only when you see the things with Closed Eyes

- Módlcie się i nawracajcie - wzywała Matka Boska. Jej apel odniósł odwrotny skutek w gabinetach Komitetu Wojewódzkiego PZPR w Białymstoku, w biurze Wydziału do Spraw Wyznań i za murami białostockiej Komendy Wojewódzkiej MO.

Modern man may be characterized as a being who is callous to catastrophes. A victim of enforced brutalization, his sensibility is being increasingly reduced; his sense of honor is on the wane. The distinction between right and wrong is becoming blurred. All that is left to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of honor.

Mohammad never assigned himself a status more than a common man and a messenger of God. People had faith in him when he was surrounded by poverty and adversity and trusted him while he was the ruler of a great Empire. He was a man of spotless character who always had confidence in himself and in God's help. No aspect of his life remained hidden nor was his death a mysterious event.

Modern life is, for most of us, a kind of serfdom to mortgage, job and the constant assault to consume. Although we have more time and money than ever before, most of us have little sense of control over our own lives. It is all connected to the apathy that means fewer and fewer people vote. Politicians don’t listen to us anyway. Big business has all the power; religious extremism all the fear. But in the garden or allotment we are king or queen. It is our piece of outdoors that lays a real stake to the planet.

Modern society, the political body, the legal and judiciary system, the state of governance, capitalism and the very fabric of the society itself, including our religions and so-called morals and values, are institutions steeped in traditions of absolute and total violence.

Modern life seems to recede further and further away from nature, and closely connected with this fact we seem to be losing the feeling of reverence towards nature. It is probably inevitable when science and machinery, capitalism and materialism go hand in hand so far in a most remarkably successful manner. Mysticism, which is the life of religion in whatever sense we understand it, has come to be relegated altogether in the background. Without a certain amount of mysticism there is no appreciation for the feeling of reverence, and, along with it, for the spiritual significance of humility. Science and scientific technique have done a great deal for humanity; but as far as our spiritual welfare is concerned we have not made any advances over that attained by our forefathers. In fact we are suffering at present the worst kind of unrest all over the world.

Modern Western culture has become a mixture of paganism and Christianity. We are a blend of both. We talk of God, but we often act as though we are atheists.

Money is a god whose religion is greed.

Monotheism and an absolute God define one another. The absolute is a mental construct, an abstract mental model. The absolute, whether it is a purest abstract essence or an extreme abstract measure, only exists in our minds as an abstraction. Furthermore, the absolute will only lead to the abandon of all measure and blind us to the relative interdependence of all things. The measure of knowledge of life is the knowledge of the measure of this relative interdependence.

Monotheism exhibits what is essentially a pathological personality pattern projected onto the ideal of God: the pattern of the paranoid, possessive, power-obsessed male ego. This God is not someone you would care to invite to a garden party. Also interesting is that the Western ideal is the only formulation of deity that has no relationship with woman at any point in the theological myth. In ancient Babylon Anu was paired with his consort Inanna; Grecian religion assigned Zeus a wife, many consorts, and daughters. These heavenly pairings are typical. Only the god of Western civilization has no mother, no sister, no female consort, and no daughter.

...[M]oral instruction, although containing much that is convincing for the reason, ...accomplishes... little... [because] the teachers themselves have not got their own notions clear, and when they endeavor to make up for this by raking up motives of moral goodness from every quarter, trying to make their physic right strong, they spoil it.

Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.

Morality is to Scriptures, what Innovation is to Comic-Books.

Morality doesn't come from religion; it comes first from our Mother.

More people have died in the name of religion than any other cause on earth. Is massacring God's creations really serving God - or the devil? And what father would want to see his children constantly divided and fighting? What God would allow a single human life to be sacrificed for monetary gain? Again, the Creator or the devil?

Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it.

Morality is always prejudicial.

More importantly, it is difficult to study minds because we are mental beings. We have our own minds to maintain and protect, and may not wish to discover facts that force us to change, or make us question our own being in the world, or conflict with our sense of right and wrong. We have not discussed belief systems known as religions to any extent in this book. However, particularly threatening are facts that run counter to our religious beliefs, especially if those beliefs are strongly held. Further, scientists have hopes, standards, and ethical beliefs, and they—like anybody—are not eager to find that their beliefs are invalid.

More often than not, leaving a cult environment requires an adjustment period, not only to reintegrate into “normal” society but also to put the pieces of yourself back together in a way that makes sense to you. When you first leave a cultic situation, you may not recognize yourself. You may not know how to identify the problems you are about to face. You may not have the slightest idea who you want to be. The question we often ask children, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” suddenly takes on a new meaning for adult ex-cult members (p. 1).

Morality makes sense only in a theonomous culture

Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite.

Most Christians have enormous respect for the space and freedom of others, it is only that they have found a joy in Jesus they want to share. There is the tension.

Morir por un a religión es más simple que vivirla con plenitud.

Mormons invented themselves just as other religious and ethnic groups invented themselves. But Mormons did so in such a singularly impressive way that we will probably always remain baffled as to how exactly it happened.

Moslims die hun politieke overtuigingen baseren op hun geloof zijn 'fundamentalisten', een Amerikaanse presidentskandidaat die zo met zijn religie omgaat, heet in de meeste westerse media 'evangelistisch' of 'diep gelovig'. Wint deze Amerikaan de verkiezingen, dan zegt bijna niemand dat het christendom 'oprukt', maar als moslims die hun politieke inspiratie uit de Koran halen hun zin krijgen, schrijft menige westerse commentator dat 'de islam in opmars' is. Raakt een Arabische leider in conflict met een westerse regering, dan is hij 'anti-westers'. Westerse regeringen zijn nooit 'anti-arabisch'.

Most of our caste in this country, if they only knew it, are Confucian rather than Christian. Belief in ancestors, and tradition, respect for parents, honesty, moderation of conduct, kind treatment of animals and dependents, absence of self-obtrusion, and stoicism in face of pain and death.