Kerry Thornley Quotes

#1. If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.

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#2. ZEN is MEDITATION. ARCHY is Social Order. ZENARCHY is the Social Order which springs from Meditation. As a doctrine, it holds Universal Enlightenment a prerequisite to abolition of the State, after which a State will inevitably vanish. Or - that failing - nobody will give a damn.

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#3. As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

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#4. Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?

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#5. Every few thousand years some shepard inhales smoke from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy rye bread in a cave and sees God.

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#6. Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.

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#7. What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

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