Quantum religion: spiritual truths, lies, facts, fiction, blues and infinity…

sometimes….  fervent and sincere beliefs about truth, lies, science and fiction are
tiny guesses about misapprehension, confusion, bias, fear, myths and magic.

https://youtu.be/eMuzFQTpjDE
Lightnin Hopkins ~ Trouble in mind

 

Quantum facts remain...

 

“Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.”

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”

~Robert A. Heinlein

“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”

~Karl Marx

 

“I’m going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Period. Terminato. Finito.”

~Gene Wilder

“The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”

~Thomas Paine

“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”

~Edgar Allan Poe

“Love is my religion – I could die for it.”

~John Keats

“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”

~Sigmund Freud

“Religion is just mind control.”

~George Carlin

The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines an agnostic as one “who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God.”

“I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.”

~Orson Welles

Theism is belief in the existence of a Supreme Being or deities.

“When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.”

― Mark Twain, The Autobiography of Mark Twain

Atheism is commonly understood as a rejection of theism in the broadest sense.

 

(atheism=rejection of belief in God or gods)

 

Agnostic atheism is a philosophical position that encompasses both atheism and agnosticism.

… The agnostic atheist may be contrasted with the agnostic theist, who believes that one or more deities exist but claims that the existence or nonexistence of such is unknown or cannot be known.

Less broadly, atheism is the rejection of belief that any deities exist.  In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities.

Atheism is contrasted with theism, which, in its most general form, is the belief that at least one deity exists.

Atheism and Theism both deal with religion and the existence of God.

The primary difference between Atheism and Theism is theists believe in the existence of God, whereas atheists believe no god exists.

 

“Atheism is a non-prophet organization.“

~George Carlin

“Atheism is the last word of theism.”

~Heinrich Heine

“Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.”

~Vanna Bonta

“Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one’s soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.”

~Josephine Baker

https://youtu.be/UZfPtV8txlg?list=RDUZfPtV8txlg 
Josephine Baker – Greatest Hits (FULL ALBUM)

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?”

~M. C. Escher

 

“Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it’s beauty.”

~Albert Einstein

https://thepeaceresource.com/2015/02/03/spiritual-and-religious-ideas/

In considering Abrahamic traditions, Deism, Atheism, Agnosticism and Existentialism… I’ve found the isms overrated. 

 

When it comes to philosophy and religion, I’m a gardener who loves to read, write and plant a few seeds.

 

“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.  I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.”

― John Lennon

BB King was an FAA certified private pilot and learned to fly in 1963 at what was  then Chicago Hammond Airport in Lansing, Illinois.^[85][86]

He frequently flew to gigs

https://thepeaceresource.com/2018/06/15/riley-b-king-b-b-king/

“Like the most of you, I was raised among people who knew – who were certain. They did not reason or investigate. They had no doubts…