Duane

“philosophy is no longer concerned with the quest for the truth of the world and so is reduced to a limited sphere, which only ensures the uninterrupted flow of capitalist markets. Truth as a philosophical category thus becomes enslaved to the unthinking markets of capitalism; philosophy at the service of the robber barons. Truth's instantiation is thus brutally reduced to the exercise of pure and arbitrary power in various domains of the world.”
― Creston Davis

“Oral peoples mythologize history. Literate peoples historicize myth. Another”
― John Knight Lundwall, Mythos and Cosmos: Mind and Meaning in the Oral Age

“Once I could no longer find a way to theologically maintain God and hold onto the significance of my historical moment, letting go of God was natural.”
― Anthony B. Pinn, Writing God's Obituary: How a Good Methodist Became a Better Atheist

“Yet this absolute power of God over man is counterbalanced by the idea that man is God's potential rival.”
― Erich Fromm, You Shall Be as Gods: A Radical Interpretation of the Old Testament and Its Traditions