Percy Bysshe Shelley on Religion
1792–1822 England
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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
A Defence of Poetry (1821)
The moon of Mahomet
Arose, and it shall set;
While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon,
The cross leads generations on.
Hellas (1821)
Hell is a city much like London —
A populous and smoky city.
Peter Bell the Third (1819)
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece.
Hellas (1821)
Human pride
Is skilful to invent most serious names
To hide its ignorance.
The name of God
Has fenced about all crime with holiness.
Tacitus says, that the Jews held God to be something eternal and supreme, neither subject to change nor to decay; therefore, they permit no statues in their cities or their temples. The universal Being can only be described or defined by negatives which deny his subjection to the laws of all inferior existences. Where indefiniteness ends, idolatry and anthropomorphism begin.
Essay on Christianity (1859)