Archive for the ‘Religion’ Category

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

What do Holy Accidents teach? Be resilient. Be strong. Be ready for change, for the new. Gather man experiences and judge them by the steadfast nature of our faith.

- Tleilaxu Doctrine

 

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

Religion must be accepted as a source of energy. It can be directed for our purposes, but only within limits that experience reveals. He is the secret meaning of Free Will.

- Missionaria Protectiva Protective Teaching
 

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them. Oppose a religion with another religion only if your proofs (miracles) are irrefutable or if you can mesh in a way that the fanatics accept you as god-inspired. This has long been the barrier to science assuming a mantle of divine revelation. Science is so obviously man-made. Fanatics know where you stand, but more important, must recognize who whispers in your ear.

- Missionaria Protectiva Primary Teaching
 

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

A major concept guides the Missionaria Protectiva: Purposeful instruction of the masses. This is firmly seated in our belief that the aim of argument should be to change the nature of truth. In such matters, we prefer the use of power rather than force.

- The Coda

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

Religion (emulation of adults by the child) encysts past mythologies: guesses, hidden assumptions of trust in the universe, pronouncements made in search of personal power, all mingled with shreds of enlightenment. And always an unspoken commandment: Thou shalt not question! We break that commandment daily in the harnessing of human imagination to our deepest creativity.

- Bene Gesserit Credo

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.

- Proverbs of Muad’dib

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind is sure to follow.