Science and Religion
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Comment# · Unrated · submitted 6 Feb by
Jambone9
Jesus of Nazareth often spoke of loving your enemy. Some have even killed their enemies to show just how strong their love was.
Comment# · Good (one rating) · submitted 4 Feb by
peter
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov, in
Science and Religion and
Success and Failure
Comment# · Unrated · submitted 30 Jan by
Jambone9
When an older person reads a religious text like never before and tries to live according to its dictates, it may be preparation for a final examination to qualify for a place in the afterlife.
Comment# · Unrated · submitted 24 Jan by
jambone9
If humankind is in the image of the Creator, is a desire to be god-like blasphemous?
Comment# · Unrated · submitted 17 Jan by
jambone9
Jesus of Nazareth did not intend to found a new religion-he didn't have time. His followers had other ideas.
Comment# · Unrated · submitted 11 Jan by
jambone9
The Creator is not an equal opportunity employer; when the Creator wants you, you go.
Comment# · Poor (one rating) · submitted 11 Jan by
jambone9
Jesus of Nazareth was a Jew. His disciples and subsequent followers promoted him to Christian.
Comment# · Unrated · submitted 11 Jan by
jambone9
A cult is a religion that has yet to attain legitimacy; a religion is a former cult that has barely attained it.
Comment# · Unrated · submitted 25 Dec
God may be subtle, but He's delicious!
John Alejandro King, a.k.a. The Covert Comic, in
Science and Religion and
Wisdom and Ignorance
Comment# · Fair (721 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 2008)
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
Comment# · Fair (1378 ratings) · submitted 1999
It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.
Daisaku Ikeda, (World Tribune, Oct. 29, 1999, p. 5), in
Happiness and Misery and
Science and Religion
Comment# · Fair (807 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in
Science and Religion
Comment# · Fair (1104 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in
Science and Religion and
Success and Failure
Comment# · Fair (832 ratings) · submitted 1997 by
Barry Cantor (updated 1999)
According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in
Science and Religion
Comment# · Fair (833 ratings) · submitted 1999 by
Guillermo Ramhorst
The truth is out there.
Chris Carter, The X Files, in
Science and Religion
Comment# · Fair (891 ratings) · submitted 1999 by
Erwin van Moll
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
Jorge Luis Borges, "The Theologians", in
Science and Religion
Comment# · Fair (652 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion; rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.
Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, in
Science and Religion
The Dancing Wu Li Masters (paperback) Comment# · Fair (1028 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
Wilson Mizner, (Alva Johnston: The Legendary Mizners, 1953), in
Science and Religion and
Work and Recreation
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