Sex, Marriage and Religion

Sex and sexual desires plays such a powerful role in our lives that it’s no wonder why the major religions attempt to control it and place such stringent rules on what you may and may not do. Putting these rules and regulations on sexuality is another attempt to rope you into their grasps and tell you that you have sinned. It is another whip for them to use to make you jump through their hoops. Since the desire of sex is probably only topped by the desire to continue to live, regulating it is a very powerful instrument and that is why all the main religions have it packed in their arsenals. The top three religions prohibit you from having sex before marriage; they even demand that you are not to partake in masturbation. While most all faiths have different views on the topic, I will cover the top three, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.

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Spirituality and Inspirational Life Quotes

“The Buddha’s teachings on love are clear. It is possible to live twentyfour hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.” 
Thich Nhat Hanh

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature  trees, flowers, grass grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.”
Mother Teresa   

"What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it took religion to save me from the spirit world, from orbiting the earth like Lucifer and the angels, that it took nothing less than touching the thread off the misty interstates and eating Christ himself to make me mortal man again and let me inhabit my own flesh and love her in the morning.”
Walker Percy               

Life Quotes


"You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.”
Adlin Sinclair




“The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them.”
Phillip Noyce


"Success is a welcomed gift for the uninhibited mind.”
Adlin Sinclair           

"Without faith, hope and trust, there is no promise for the future, and without a promising future, life has no direction, no meaning and no justification.”
Adlin Sinclair           

“The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.”
Simone Weil

“The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.”
Georg Simmel

"There can be no hope when there lacks interest for better. There can be no trust when there lacks confirmation of truth. There can be no faith when there lacks complete confidence of purpose.”
Adlin Sinclair   
                   

"All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
Jalal AdDin Rumi
               
Inspirational Life Quotes

"We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.”
Kalu Rinpoche                   

"The tears of faithfulness to your beliefs cleanse your spirit to envision the road ahead. Everything is possible for the person who believes.”
Adlin Sinclair   

Quotes to Live By

“I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful  collecting these shards of spirituality  that we may be helping to bring about a healing.”
Leonard Nimoy
       

"I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba

"There is only one way, really, to get into a state of living, and that's live! There is no substitute for an allout, overtheramparts, howling charge against life. That's living. Living does not consist of sitting in a temple in the shadows and getting rheumatism from the cold stones. Living is hot, it's fast, it's often brutal! It has a terrific gamut of emotional reactions. If you are really willing to live, you first have to be willing to do anything that consists of living. Weird. But it's one of those awfully true things that you wonder why one has to say it. And yet it has to be said."
L. Ron Hubbard

   
                   
“The best way to know any future is to cause one. And that’s why, you see, when you start consulting the oracle at Delphi, you’ve taken a step downhill. You have assigned cause for the future elsewhere...So one predicts the future as much as one is cause. The future isn’t a pattern laid out to abuse and bully you. The future is a beautiful playground that nobody happen to be combining.You talk about virgin territory – the most virgin territory there is, is the future. You can do anything you want with it.”
L. Ron Hubbard

Cute Quotes About Life

“It’s just such a freeing thing to set these great challenges for yourself, to travel, to learn more about the world, to just go out there and get crazy and get free and get strong.”
Angelina Jolie
   


"On an altar of prejudice we crucify our own, yet the blood of all children is the color of God.”
Don Williams, Jr.
           

"It is neither wise nor brave to question God. It is the folly of a prideful heart”
Don Williams, Jr
   
                   

"You may have been taught that the mind (the spirit, the brain) is a very difficult thing to know about. This is the first principle of Scientology: It is possible to know about the mind, the spirit and life.”
L. Ron Hubbard
                   

"Dreaming is not enough. You have to go a step further and use your imagination to visualize, with intent! Forget everything you've ever been taught, and believe it will happen, just as you imagined it. That is the secret. That is the mystery of life.”
Christine Anderson

"Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.”
Bonnie Raitt

Great Quotes

"I would describe my spirituality as exactly the opposite of having a religious affiliation.”
Bill Maher

"God, despite his casual silence, still exists. Of that I haven’t a single doubt.”
Don Williams, Jr

"Faith is the force of life.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

“Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.”
Paul Tillich


"To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be  in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
   

“We must have the faith that things will work out somehow, that God will make a way for us when there seems no way.” 
Martin Luther King

“Through awareness, you get a certain attitude. That’s the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion, more friendship through that way.” 
14th Dalai Lama

“Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.” 
Ram Dass

“The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.” 
Lao Tzu
               

"God talks incessantly. But, as it turns out, mankind is deaf.”
Don Williams, Jr.



Best Quotes

"You cannot petition the Lord with prayer.”
Jim Morrison
   


"As women, however, we need to look very closely at these philosophies and ask ourselves the hardheaded, critial question, "What's in it for me?" "What does this spiritual system do for women?" Of course, the gurus, teachers, and ascended masters will tell us that, even by asking such a question, we are merely continuing in our enslavement to the Lords of Mind; that it is simply another dodge of the ego as it resists dissoulution in the All.”
Starhawk                   

"Fascination with the psychic  or the psychological  can be a dangerous sidetrack on any spiritual path.”
Starhawk
                   

"Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.”
Ashley Montague

Nice Quotes   

"God, despite his casual silence, still exists. Of that I haven’t a single doubt.”
Don Williams, Jr.           

"Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.”
St. Thomas Aquinas


“Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do.”
Eriq La Salle

“An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and nondenominational type.”
Stanislav Grof

Spiritual Psychology

“Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga.”
Christy Turlington

“As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win.”
Neale Donald Walsch

“Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.”
Peter Jennings


“Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.”
Joseph Joubert

“I also work with the spirituality of people.”
Della Reese

“I think there’s an invisible principle of living too. If we believe we’re guided through every step of our lives, we are. It’s a lovely sight, watching it work.” 
Richard Bach


“I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.”
Peter Jennings

“I don't think my spirituality has affected my character. I feel like my character is much more cynical about his beliefs, and I think I have to kind of drop what I believe in order to play him.”
Jason Ritter

“I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs  a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church.”
Peter Jurasik

“Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn’t, it is of no use.” 
Carlos Castaneda


“I have an interest in spirituality, and it opens up so many different areas of Indian life.”
Francois Gautier

“I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.”
Amber Tamblyn


“However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?” 
Buddha

“I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.”
Noah Taylor

“I think the new spirituality will be a spirituality that's not based on a particular dogma. And that steps away from the old spiritual paradigm that we have created on this planet, which comes from a thought that there is such a thing as being better.”
Neale Donald Walsch


“I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.”
Dave Davies

“I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.”
Olympia Dukakis

“I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.”
Danny Glover

“I was unwilling to  without getting too philosophical about it  I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it.”
Peter Jurasik



“I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.”
Sandra Bernhard

“A lot of people over the years have been doing yoga and I think even more these days are expressing an interest in it. So there are a lot of manifestations of spirituality here in town.”
Ashley Judd

“If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.”
Neale Donald Walsch

“In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it's still the best way of looking at the world for Indians  better than any organized religion in this country.”
James Welch

“In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.”
Barbara de Angelis

“Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.”
Jim Rohn


“Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.”
Dennis Banks

“Fay has spirituality too, but she also has that very real sex appeal that takes hold of the hearts of men.”
Erich von Stroheim

“For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.”
Peabo Bryson


“My driving force is spirituality.”
Debra Wilson

“My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.”
Wyclef Jean

“Religion can be both good and bad  it is spirituality that counts.”
Pat Buckley

“Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.”
Bonnie Raitt

“Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.”
John Henrik Clarke


“So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.”
Susan Sarandon

“Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.”
Sri Aurobindo


“Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.”
Daniel Berrigan


“The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.”
Francis Schaeffer


“You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!” 
Eckhart Tolle

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” 
Carl Jung



“I believe in myself. I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love.” 
Richard Branson


“It enables me to go to bed with an enriching feeling in my soul and the belief that I am changing myself.” 
Nelson Mandela

“But maybe, by raising my voice, I can help the greatest of all causes – good will among men and peace on earth.” 
Albert Einstein


“That which you resist stays.” 
David R. Hawkins


“Would you rather be right or free?” 
Byron Katie


“Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.” 
Lester Levenson


“The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give.” 
Mother Teresa


“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”  
Khalil Gibran


“And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to the span of life?” 
Jesus


“To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.” 
Osho


“Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual.” 
David SteindlRast


“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” 
Rumi Quote


“Success is a welcomed gift for the uninhibited mind.” 
Adlin Sinclair


“I love all religions, but I am in love with my own.” 
Mother Teresa


“I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have.” 
Dan Brown


“It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.” 
Jiddu Krishnamurti


“Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are.” 
Miguel Angel Ruiz



“It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the “I Am,” our real presence, can awaken.”  
G.I. Gurdjieff


“We have always been involved in spiritual evolution. We are spiritual beings, we have always been spiritual beings and we will always be spiritual beings.” 
Gary Zukav


“Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.” 
Rumi


“In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.” 
Buddha


“The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn’t saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me.” 
John Lennon

“Without faith, hope and trust, there is no promise for the future, and without a promising future, life has no direction, no meaning and no justification.” 
Adlin Sinclair


“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”  
Buddha

Osama Bin Laden is Finally Dead!

Osama Bin Laden is finally dead! And Americans are celebrating!!

A religiously motivated leader of some of the worst religious inspired heinous acts of this century is now finally dead. US Military shot him in the head in a raid that lasted 40 minutes! No military casualties!

Watch the video here: http://bit.ly/m0JmoM
And read the news article here: http://bit.ly/lTGqMW

Escaping Death

On a show about disaster, there was a story about a lady who gave her space on a bus to someone else, it crashed and many people died. She thanks god that she had escaped death; and this made me think. Everybody reading this has escaped death for every second of their lives, by definition. The fact that some else died when it could have been you isn’t a necessity for you to have escaped death. Not to mention, what bad luck for the person who died instead. Every time I drive, I escape death, an accident that I narrowly avoid, doesn't have to happen in order for me to make that claim.

The Main Reason I Don't Like Religion

"My personal #1 reason that I don't like religion is because I like knowledge, I crave information like a crack attic craves crack! And Religion suppresses knowledge; not just the knowledge unfortunately, but it suppresses the entire drive to understand. With ideas like God created it and we can never comprehend how so don't try, religion wipes out the one thing that makes mankind great, our mind!" -Garrett Fogerlie

Realy Good Quote From Christopher Hitchens

I came across this while researching a paper I am writing that will be posted at articles.eviltheists.com soon.

"The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more."

Thomas Sutcliffe Quote

"Given their virtually seamless record of error when it comes to pontificating about scientific discoveries, you'd think Roman Catholic bishops might have acquired a little humility by now."