OPIATE

 

“Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told.

Religion is doing what you are told regardless of what is right.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2021.

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THE YOKE

 

“…crawling out of the medieval muck of doctrinal bondage

is the first step to secular sensibility on the road to the stars…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in St Michael’s Tower on the Glastonbury Tor in England in June 2007.

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TRAPPED

 

“If one has never known freedom,

it is easy to be blind to the gridirons composing one’s cell.”

 

~ Nenia Campbell ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2014.

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YARDSTICK

 

“Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.”

 

~ Mason Cooley ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of one of the blue Marc Chagall stained glass windows in the church of Saint Stephen in Mainz, Germany taken in September 2012.

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STAYING AFLOAT

 

“The world is filled with fools,

but none of them considers himself one,

or tries not to be one.”

 

~ Baltasar Gracián ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2010.

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THE LIGHT

 

“The trouble with people is not that they don’t know

but that they know so much that ain’t so.”

 

~ Josh Billings ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2019.

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FOOL’S GOLD

 

“…the number of children and adults tortured

in the name of mainstream religious

and racial orthodoxy outweighs any others.”

 

~ Valerie Sinason ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in October 2018.

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PURPLE PASSION

 

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

 

~ Aldous Huxley ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Bavaria in May 2015.

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BLEACH BONED AND HOLLOW SKULLED

 

“Death is the greatest illusion of all.”

 

~ Osho Rajneesh ~

 

Digitally enhance image created from an original photo taken at the Church of St. Katharin in the Ossuary of the Chapel of St Michael in Oppenheim, Germany in January 2010.

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THE CORRIDOR

 

“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”

 

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken at Winchester Cathedral, England in June 2007.

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