What Is My Religion?
When someone asks me what my religion is, my response is "the one that doesn't divide".
Staring Into The Dark: Thoughts On Demons.
"Stop explaining yourself to demons. You owe them nothing." -- Timo Malum
“Culture, like science, is no protection against demons.” -- G.K. Chesterton
“Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.” -- Remy de Gourmont
"We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime." -- Franz Kafka
“Know your enemy the devil without giving him the satisfaction of too much attention.” -- Criss Jami
"Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword." -- R. Buckminster Fuller
“For i say unto thee the demon feedeth upon hate, and whosoever walketh in the ways of the demon liveth in hate and doth bring about their own doom.” -- Jesaja, the observer
"There is nothing more to controlling demons than to do good and fear nothing." -- Eliphas Levi
“Where there is prayer, the fallen spirits have no power.” -- Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
Our World No Longer Hears God.
"Our world no longer hears God because it is constantly speaking, at a devastating speed and volume, in order to say nothing. Modern civilization does not know how to be quiet. It holds forth in an unending monologue. Postmodern society rejects the past and looks at the present as a cheap consumer object; it pictures the future in terms of an almost obsessive progress.
Its dream, which has become a sad reality, will have been to lock silence away in a damp, dark dungeon. Thus there is a dictatorship of speech, a dictatorship of verbal emphasis. In this theater of shadows, nothing is left but a purulent wound of mechanical words, without perspective, without truth, and without foundation. Quite often “truth” is nothing more than the pure and misleading creation of the media, corroborated by fabricated images and testimonies. When that happens, the word of God fades away, inaccessible and inaudible.
Postmodernity is an ongoing offense and aggression against the divine silence. From morning to evening, from evening to morning, silence no longer has any place at all; the noise tries to prevent God himself from speaking. In this hell of noise, man disintegrates and is lost; he is broken up into countless worries, fantasies, and fears. In order to get out of these depressing tunnels, he desperately awaits noise so that it will bring him a few consolations.
Noise is a deceptive, addictive, and false tranquilizer. The tragedy of our world is never better summed up than in the fury of senseless noise that stubbornly hates silence. This age detests the things that silence brings us to: encounter, wonder, and kneeling before God.
Even in the schools, silence has disappeared. And yet how can anyone study in the midst of noise? How can you read in noise? How can you train your intellect in noise? How can you structure your thought and the contours of your interior being in noise?
How can you be open to the mystery of God, to spiritual values, and to our human greatness in continual turmoil? Contemplative silence is a fragile little flame in the middle of a raging ocean.
The fire of silence is weak because it is bothersome to a busy world.”
—Cardinal Robert Sarah
Judaism Forbids Zionism.
An orthodox Jew is asked about Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Zionism:
"Let me be clear: God is eternal, His word is eternal, and so are the Jewish people. Judaism forbids Zionism. The Jewish people never ever sought to gain sovereignty of the Holy Land until the Zionist godless founders hijacked our name. But it was never us. Our grandparents lived in the Holy Land in peace with their Arabic neighbors. They were friends and colleagues. Zionists wanted to create a Jewish nationality and destroyed it all to achieve it. Netanyahu, you did not represent us."
Blessed Is The Crisis.
"Blessed is the crisis that made you grow, the fall that made you look to heaven, and the problem that made you look for God." - Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
You Live In A Mirrorverse.
"You live in a mirrorverse. Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world."
