„Ideology is a parasite on religious substructures. A religious narrative has a particular set of characteristics. It’s very balanced. So for example there’s the feminist idea of the patriarchy. Well the religious idea of society has a patriarchal notion built into it. That would be the dying king. The once great dying king. In a religious story, there’s the natural world, the chaotic world – there’s a positive element and a negative element. Then there’s the social world – there’s the wise king and the tyrannical king. Then there’s the individual world – that’s the adversary and the hero. There’s always a positive and a negative at each level. And it stops it from being an over simplification.“

— Jordan Peterson

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„The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like 'religion', to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism.“
— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
„The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.“
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
„This world is mine for the taking, make me king!“
— Eminem
„As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the "human religious ideal" inclines to stress certain tendencies and to express itself in terms which seem, at first sight, no longer to coincide with the "christian religious ideal."“
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin