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“Too much order is so masculine that it becomes violent, so ordered it becomes suffocating, so prescriptive that rites have lost all meaning. This order is so hierarchical it becomes abusive, so sure of the known that it shuts down any new knowledge, and so authoritarian that it becomes a prophet-worshiping cult.”
― Brittney Hartley, No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required

“Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion--its message becomes meaningless.”3”
― Brittney Hartley, No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required

“However, what I can say is that something happened when God the female, God the many, and God the abundant, became God the male, God the jealous, God the singular, and God the conqueror.”
― Brittney Hartley, No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required

“The sad reality of human history thus far is that when we try to go back to, or preserve, more communal ways of living, the cult that produces the most dogmatic, individualistic, egocentric, us versus them, "only our kind go to heaven" idea wins the war. It is something we will have to outgrow after a collective recognition that this is not the way.”
― Brittney Hartley, No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required