We live in a climate of fear, and because of this whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion.
Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.
I may be Jewish, but my religion is hip-hop.
How can one be compassionate if you belong to any religion, follow any guru, believe in something, believe in your scriptures, and so on, attached to a conclusion? When you accept your guru, you have come to a conclusion, or when you strongly believe in god or in a saviour, this or that, can there be compassion? You may do social work, help the poor out of pity, out of sympathy, out of charity, but is all that love and compassion?
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question. . . . Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been. . . As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.
I don't know how many serious Christians exist here in America, but the Japanese, the younger generation is leaving the Buddhist religion mentality behind.
Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat. , Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas. ]
Proof' is the hallmark of religion.
Religions change; beer and wine remain.
Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity.
With the power of soul, anything is possible.
Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.
The less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine.
The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.
The family that prays together. . . is brainwashing their children.
Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.
What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians?
The Arab rulers are basically unpopular. They are supported by the United States against the wishes of their people. In all of this rather heady mixture of violence and policies that are remarkably unpopular right down to the last iota, it's not hard for demagogues, especially people who claim to speak in the name of religion, in this case Islam, to raise a crusade against the United States and say that we must somehow bring America down.