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Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific legitimation.

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Karen Armstrong

Religious ideas and practices take root not because they are promoted by forceful theologians, nor because they can be shown to have a sound historical or rational basis, but because they are found in practice to give the faithful a sense of sacred transcendence.

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The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.

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Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

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The only way to show a true respect for God is to act morally while ignoring God’s existence.

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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

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If we don't manage to implement the Golden Rule globally, so that we treat all peoples, wherever and whoever they may be, as though they were as important as ourselves, I doubt that we'll have a viable world to hand on to the next generation.

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