„The worship of the rational mind makes you prone to totalitarian ideology. The Catholic Church always warned against this. The warning was that the rational mind always falls in love with its own creations. The intellect is raised to the status of highest god. The highest ideal that a person holds – consciously or unconsciously – that’s their god. It functions precisely in that manner. It exists forever, it exists in all people, it takes them over and exists in their behavior. That’s a god. We have to think about that idea functionally.“

— Jordan Peterson

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„This is our problem as modern 'enlightened' individuals, for whom all gods and devils have been rationalized out of existence“
— Joseph Campbell
„When we claim that "God does not exist," we mean to deny by this declaration the personal God of theology, the God worshiped in various ways and divers modes by believers the world over, that God who from nothing created the universe, from chaos matter, that God of absurd attributes who is an affront to human reason.“
— Benito Mussolini
„Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.“
— Swami Vivekananda