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Friday 26th of April 2024

Agricultural Revolution The first religious effect of the Agricultural Revolution was to turn plants and animals from equal members of a spiritual round table into property. Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say Nothing can stand in the way of you becoming a millionaire if you want it bad enough   Motivational speakers and prosperity preachers © 2018 Kwiple.com
By the numbers 1 in 6 hospital beds in this country is now in a facility that abides by Catholic restrictions on care ACLU, “Health Care Denied” © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers A 2014 Pew Research Center report suggested that the United States' adult population of pagans and Wiccans was about 730,000–on par with the number of Unitarians. The Atlantic Monthly, March 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Oh … I'd … say … 9 point 142 or thereabouts, which we all know is nearly a full point lower than how you rate yours.  How Katanji Brown Jackson should have responded to Lindsey Graham, who asked her  during her confirmation hearing for appointment to the Supreme Court, “How would you rate your religious faith on a scale of 1 to 10?” © 2022 Kwiple.com
Christianity According to a recent Pew Research poll,  60 percent of Americans believe the country was founded to be a Christian nation, and nearly half (including 81 percent of white evangelicals) think it should be one today. Linda Greenhouse, New York Review of Books, February 8, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Civility  The Episcopalian ideal of a gentleman is a man who, if a lady falls down drunk, will pick her up off the floor and freshen up her drink. Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays, Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral © 2018 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say Nobody's done more for religion than I have. Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say You know, nobody has done more for Christianity, nobody has done more for religion of all types, than me. Donald Trump, May 4, 2022, to CBN News, an evangelical network © 2022 Kwiple.com
Congress As such, white Protestants are overrepresented in government, and are disproportionately represented in Congress. Currently 77 percent of Congress is made up of whites, compared with 60 percent of the general population, and 55 percent of Congress identify as some kind of Protestant, compared with 43 percent nationally. Mary Trump, The Reckoning  [2021] © 2021 Kwiple.com
Creationism The fundamental difference between religion and science is that the former is all about the celebration of certainty, whereas the latter is all about the quantification of doubt. Creationists understand this instinctively. What they cannot afford to see happen is that people start wondering about their place in the universe, and asking whether the certainties in which they have been raised might not be so certain after all. Henry Gee, The Accidental Species © 2017 Kwiple.com
Freedom of expression In the face of the history of the human race what can be more silly or ridiculous than likes or dislikes founded upon race or religion? Does humanity want symphonies and paintings and profound scientific truth, or does it want Christian symphonies, Christian paintings, Christian science, or Jewish symphonies, Jewish paintings, Jewish science, or Mohammedan or Egyptian or German or Russian or Commmunist or Conservative contributions to and expressions of the infinite richness of the human soul? Abraham Flexner © 2017 Kwiple.com
Immigration Immigration is religion’s last, best prayer in England. Muslims and west African Christians are among those bucking the native trends towards secularisation. … The quandary for conservatives could not be more awkward. Is a nation of non-Christian faith (and where Christian, often non-Anglican) better than a godless one? What in the end matters more, a citizenry that looks and sounds familiar, or one that upholds traditional morals? Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, December 16, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Money Christians and Muslims who could not agree on religious beliefs could nevertheless agree on a monetary belief, because whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something. Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens © 2016 Kwiple.com
Oppression This government hates religious organizations so much it lets them keep a hundred billion dollars in offerings tax free. Persecute my ass like that. y Jon Stewart © 2015 Kwiple.com
Partisanship [T]he two parties are now divided over race and religion—two deeply polarizing issues that tend to generate greater intolerance and hostility than traditional policy issues such as taxes and government spending. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Poor Whites They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them. Barack Obama © 2015 Kwiple.com
QAnon The Seventh-day Adventists and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are thriving religious movements indigenous to America.  Do not be surprised if QAnon becomes another. It already has more adherents by far than either of those two denominations had in the first decades of their existence. People are expressing their faith through devoted study of Q drops as installments of a foundational text, through the development of Q-worshipping groups, and through sweeping  expressions of gratitude for what Q has brought to their lives. Does it matter that we do not  know who Q is? The divine is always a mystery. Does it matter that basic aspects of Q's teachings cannot be confirmed? The basic tenets of Christianity cannot be confirmed. Adrienne LaFrance, The Atlantic, June 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Religion Between ourselves, I have ever observed supercelestial opinions and subterranean manners to be of singular accord. Michel de Montaigne, "Of Experience" © 2022 Kwiple.com
Religion Crowds Rushing to See Pope Trample 6 To Death headline, Journal Star [Peoria, Ill.], July 9, 1980 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Religion From about 2007 to 2019, the over-  whelming majority of countries we studied —43 out of 49—became less religious. The decline in belief was not confined to high-income countries and appeared across most of world. … Several forces are driving this trend, but the most powerful one is the waning hold of a set of beliefs closely linked to the imperative of maintaining high birthrates. Modern societies have become less religious in part because they no longer need to up- hold the kinds of gender and sexual norms that the major world religions instilled for centuries. Ronald Inglehart, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Religion “I just don't know,” Anne Dudley said. “Did I  hurt my knees yesterday afternoon  doing the Stations of the Cross? Or did I do it falling down drunk last night?” That, in a nutshell, is the spirit of Southern Episcopalianism. Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays, Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral © 2018 Kwiple.com
Religion If religion were a thing money could buy, The rich would live and the poor would die. traditional © 2017 Kwiple.com
Religion The intentions in France and the United States seem similar, but they are not the same. The United States, in guaranteeing freedom of religion, sought to shield religion from state involvement. France, in guaranteeing freedom of religion, sought to shield the state from religious involvement. This distinction has consequences. Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic, December 2021 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Religion It once was generally assumed that religious beliefs shaped political views, not the other way round. But recent evidence indicates that the causality can run the other way:  panel studies have found that many people change their political views first and then become less religious. Ronald Inglehart, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Religion It would be too bad if Jesus Were to come back black. There are so many churches Where he could not pray In the U.S.A., Where entrance to Negroes, No matter how sanctified, Is denied, Where race, not religion, Is glorified. But say it — You  may be Crucified. “Bible Belt” by Langston Hughes © 2017 Kwiple.com
Religion Our government makes no sense, unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith – and I don't care what it is. Dwight Eisenhower © 2021 Kwiple.com
Religion A serious house on serious earth it is, In whose blent air all our compulsions meet, Are recognised, and robed as destinies. And that much never can be obsolete, Since someone will forever be surprising A hunger in himself to be more serious, And gravitating with it to this ground, Which, he once heard, was proper to grow wise in, If only that so many dead lie round. Philip Larkin, “Church Going” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Religion Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small. Reverend John Hale, in Arthur Miller's The Crucible © 2016 Kwiple.com
Religion There's always a Mormon around when you don't want one, trying your patience with unsolicited kindness. David Foster Wallace © 2020 Kwiple.com
Religion When a thousand people believe some made-up story for a month – that's fake news. When a billion people believe it for a thousand years – that's a religion. Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Democracy without theocracy is anarchy © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Tear down that wall separating church and state © 2015 Kwiple.com
Segregation At 11:00 on Sunday morning when we stand and sing and Christ has no east or west, we stand at the most segregated hour in this nation. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say You really only need one book © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Erdös himself, though raised in a Jewish family, had no use for religion. He called God “The Supreme Fascist,” and once remarked, on visiting Notre Dame, that the campus was very charming but there were too many plus signs. Paul Erdös, the mathematician, portrayed by Jordan Ellenberg in Shape © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Religion has been as much in evidence in Donald Trump's public life as vegetables have been. Donald Trump portrayed by Charles P. Pierce © 2018 Kwiple.com
Socio-economic mobility “Methodists are frustrated Baptists who'd like to be Episcopalians,” said Lucy Mattie Trigg. That is: They'd like to whoop and holler, but they're not deaf to the clarion call of upward mobility. Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays, Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral © 2018 Kwiple.com
State of the union The most dramatic shift away from religion has taken place among the American public. From 1981 to 2007, the United States ranked as one of the world's more religious countries, with religiosity levels changing very little. Since then, the United States has shown the largest move away from religion of any country for which we have data. Near the end of the initial period studied, Americans' mean rating of the importance of God in their lives was 8.2 on a ten-point scale. In the most recent U.S. survey, from 2017, the figure had dropped to 4.6, an astonishingly sharp decline. … the United States now ranks as the 11th least religious country [of 49] for which we have data. Ronald Inglehart, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest I don't think you can go to church too often. Marco Rubio, An American Son: A Memoir © 2016 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Saying companies can have religious beliefs  --> © 2017 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Saying “Soldiers of God” aren't motivated by religion © 2016 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say Salvation lies in big data © 2016 Kwiple.com
Thinking Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question. Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one religion. One nation under God and one religion under God, right? Michael Flynn © 2021 Kwiple.com
 
Truth Well, I'm not sure. Jeff Sessions, who claimed during his confirmation hearing that he doesn't believe in religious tests, responding to the follow-up question, “And a secular person has just as good a claim to understanding the truth as a person who is religious, correct?” © 2017 Kwiple.com