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21 " The dynamic and poetic symbol of water offers to the celebrant and receiver the act of covenant and joining in both community and spiritual health. One need not look any further than our own water sources to picture a oneness with the universe, life on our planet, or other human beings. Water is a sharing in this, our universe, and the world in which we live. Water is a blessing to all known life. "
― , The Liturgical Sacramentary of Bealtaine
22 " In many ways, the vampire was spared the gross suffering of the werewolf but that is only because they suffered in many other ways at the hands of the supernatural doctrines of religion. They, however, were connected to the hyperbolic voice crying in the wilderness. "
― , Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives
23 " We cannot call ourselves anti-theist, like New Atheism,while creating even rainbow pantheons of gods to follow, chasingideological spectres to the end of illogical rainbow argumentsconstructed and maintained artificially by ignorant leaders.When we do this we not only create strawmen, spectres,and artificial rainbows but pocket dimensions of subjective thoughtthat can be likened to the Twilight Zone. In this place things will notbe more real but be like a Marvel comics version of both biblical andNorse heroes that are created solely for the readers recreation andfor corporate sales. We will end up selling our souls for ideologicalsatisfaction. "
― , The Bifrost and The Ark: Examining the Cult and Religion of New Atheism
24 " Placebo effect is where the drug causes greater effect and thereby faith accentuates, prolongs and promulgates the strength of the drug. Faith in an object that is known creates a strength in the object's reaction in a more powerful manner, provided the object was intended to create positive in the first place. Yet if this faith is turned inward in a negative manner, it can hinder the effectiveness of the drug or creative power of the thing being used for the positive, this is called the nocebo effect. "
25 " We must realize the truth around our past and within it and how not being willing to question the status quo has led to horrific deeds to victims in the past. "
26 " When we let the light of truth, reason, empathy, and altruism shine enough, the clouds will clear. When our arguments are naturally reflected in pristine thought, like water, we will have the rainbow we seek. This rainbow will not be one that somehow reaches a burning Bifrost of Asgard nor has leprechauns dressed in green. For even if there were leprechauns, they would wear red, not green. "
27 " In the evening, in the moon, we see only You reflected through our sibling. In the midday sun again, we see only You. The grace of the Cosmos reflected only the beauty of Your Light, For we are in the Season of Bealtaine ... Oh that every season might be Bealtaine that we may see Your Light plainly, but no! If all seasons were the same, we would miss You in Your fullness ... for every season has its purpose, and every time its lessons. "
― , The Book of Common Prayer: Ecclesia Seclorum
28 " Bealtaine, the time of adolescent growth, where what was planted in the spring was given sustenance to grow. Where, just as plants, our souls are enriched with Light so that we may reach skyward toward heaven. "
29 " The religions changed, the nuances of the demon, theologically, changed but the creature itself did not. So many diseases and illnesses were ascribed to demonic possession. "
30 " ...it should quickly pointed out that the Loup Garou legend of France is not only the French werewolf, and vampire but also the French zombie. "
31 " For just as Jacob and Esau came from their mother Rebecca and their father Isaac, so also both zombies and werewolves came from rabies and blind blessings of theology. "
32 " The vampire was the third theological concoction made for the culture to drink from the mixologists of religion and the main ingredient of rabies. The vampire throughout the world arose concurrently with the werewolf and its origin again stemmed from the tortures of being “zombies” tied down in the wilderness. "
33 " Whether [..] arrogance is born of fear, love, anger, hatred or anything else, it is still arrogance. "
34 " One cannot sit on rainbows with them only becoming intangible upon recognition. "
35 " ...you can like women and still be misogynist. "
36 " An open mind does not censor truth, it discerns it through recognition, study, doubt, and faith. It recognizes it as complimentary to every truth in existence. When confronted with truth that makes one uncomfortable give yourself time to be open, but also time to acclimatize "
37 " The claim in his paradigm that males are naturally selected for rape is a false claim. Mr. Harris has simply built a strawman and vanquished it. "
38 " Nothing irks a follower of the movement more than the next word: faith. The leaders have practically diagnosed it as the worst possible thing that a sapient creature can have, and yet we all cling to it in the end. We place our trust in people, places, things, both seen and unseen, and most of the time it has served us well as a species. Faith has been a cornerstone and foundation of our species, and other of the Hominidae taxonomy for millions of years. It is the foundation of good relationships, confidence, and even discerning wisdom and truth. "
39 " We must nurture the lotus of knowledge, not play in the pond with it, and rip it apart like children. We must mature and discuss correctly what we mean by faith, by its definition and by its scientific and poetic effect on the human heart and psychology and the total nature of our humanity. "
40 " Our fight for justice will be equivalent to high school and college debate teams where it is all academic and sterile in the end. Whether or not truth wins will be irrelevant to the society and a dystopia is all we produce as a consequence. "