“If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.”
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.