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«The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted»
Author: Ira Glasser | About: Liberty, Religion | Keywords: ceremony, choosing, notion, participate, religious ceremony, religious liberty, voted
«Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.»
Author: Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch | Keywords: admits, egoism, endeavors, legality, religious ceremony
«RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: ceremony, essential oil, precept, religious ceremony, rite, semi, squeezed
«SACRAMENT, n. A solemn religious ceremony to which several degrees of authority and significance are attached. Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity. Some of the smaller sects have no sacraments at all --for which mean economy they will indubitable be damned.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: indubitable, Protestant, Protestants, Protestant Church, religious ceremony, religious sect, sacraments, seven churches, the sacrament
«BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.The man who taketh a steam bath He loseth all the skin he hath, And, for he's boiled a brilliant red, Thinketh to cleanliness he's wed, Forgetting that his lungs he's soiling With dirty vapors of the boiling. --Richard Gwow»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: bath, boiled, boiling, ceremony, cleanliness, mystic, religious ceremony, Richard, soiling, steam, steam bath, substituted, The Skin, The Vapors, vapor, vapors, wedding ceremony
«Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein | Keywords: Augustine, celebrated, ceremony, Marriages, marriage ceremony, religious ceremony, St. Augustine, St Augustine
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