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Single Idea 19437
[filed under theme 29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / a. Religious Belief
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Full Idea
Not only cares and labours but also prayers are useful; God having had these prayers in view before he regulated things.
Gist of Idea
Prayers are useful, because God foresaw them in his great plan
Source
Gottfried Leibniz (The Theodicy [1710], Abridge III)
Book Ref
Leibniz,Gottfried: 'Leibniz Selections', ed/tr. Wiener,Philip P. [Scribners 1951], p.514
A Reaction
Hm. I'm struggling with this one. So I can't skip prayers today, because God has foreseen them and included them in his great plan? Hard to motivate yourself, like starting a game of chess after you've already been declared the winner.
The
30 ideas
with the same theme
[nature of belief in a conscious supernatural reality]:
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8149
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Charity and ritual observance distract from the highest good of religion
[Anon (Upan)]
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1501
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In their ignorance people pray to statues, which is like talking to a house
[Heraclitus]
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14527
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If god answered prayers we would be destroyed, because we pray for others to suffer
[Epicurus]
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5955
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No one will ever find a city that lacks religious practices
[Plutarch]
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8139
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If you love the world, then you do not love the Father
[John]
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2365
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Religion is built on ignorance and misinterpretation of what is unknown or frightening
[Hobbes]
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19437
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Prayers are useful, because God foresaw them in his great plan
[Leibniz]
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19576
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Religion needs an intermediary, because none of us can connect directly to a godhead
[Novalis]
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22782
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To have pagan beliefs and be a pagan are quite different
[Hegel]
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22793
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Some religions lead to harsh servitude and the debasement of human beings
[Hegel]
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21472
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Only religion introduces serious issues to uneducated people
[Schopenhauer]
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4180
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Religion is the mythical clothing of the truth which is inaccessible to the crude human intellect
[Schopenhauer]
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19449
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Religion is the consciousness of the infinite
[Feuerbach]
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19455
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Today's atheism will tomorrow become a religion
[Feuerbach]
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6905
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Absolute idealism is the realized divine mind of Leibnizian theism
[Feuerbach]
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7128
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Religion is the opium of the people, and real happiness requires its abolition
[Marx]
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5299
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Religious feeling is social in origin
[Marx]
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4410
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The truly great haters in world history have always been priests
[Nietzsche]
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14828
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Religion is tempting if your life is boring, but you can't therefore impose it on the busy people
[Nietzsche]
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22877
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We should try attaching the intensity of religious devotion to intelligent social action
[Dewey]
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22878
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Religions are so shockingly diverse that they have no common element
[Dewey]
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23930
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Religion sees infinite value in some things, and irrelevance in the rest
[Bell,C]
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23849
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Religion should quietly suffuse all human life with its light
[Weil]
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19600
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When man abandons religion, he then follows new fake gods and mythologies
[Cioran]
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19643
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A religion needs to motivate killings, and cannot tolerate rivals
[Cioran]
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5320
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It is estimated that mankind has produced 100,000 religions
[Wilson,EO]
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12317
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The God of religion results from an encounter, not from a proof
[Badiou]
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6706
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The great religions are much more concerned with the religious life than with ethics
[Graham]
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7819
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Religion gives answers, comforts, creates social order, and panders to superstition
[Grayling]
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7463
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The three basic ingredients of religion are: the soul, seers or priests, and ritual
[Watson]
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