Dawn Clark

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
― Seneca

“Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.”
― Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

“If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.”
― Woody Allen, Hannah and Her Sisters

“Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.”
― William P. Young, The Shack