Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.
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It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same, since they originate from a common source. For example, Islam, the predominant religion in the Middle East, accepts as an integral part of its religious teachings both the Old and the New Testaments. If this commonality of moral traditions among the world's major religions does not say something about the universality of religion, it does say something about the universality of mankind....
Rep. George Miller ( news , bio , voting record ) of California, the ranking Democrat on the Education Committee, said the religion provision marred an otherwise strong bill. That is wrong, ... It is a violation of our civil rights laws and it has sunk the chances of making this important bill a truly bipartisan bill.
Truly religious and learned theologians have never challenged the freedom of philosophers while the true, civilized and well-organized philosophers have always favored religions.
Most people have some sort of religion, at least they know which church they're staying away from
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
The rally this morning couldn't hold up because there's just no conviction. There's some selling pressure there, but it's more that buyers have no religion. Tech and telecom are this huge drag on the market. People are buying very defensively in health care, chemicals, consumer products and pharmaceuticals.
The enemy is not out there. The enemy is within you. ... How we see religion is in our mind. But religion itself is the truth peace and harmony.
If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
I believe we are going to have to prepare ourselves for the difficult and patient task of outgrowing rigid and intransigent nationalism, and work slowly towards a world federation of peaceful nations. How will this be possible Don't ask me. I don't know. But unless we develop a moral, spiritual, and political wisdom that is proportionate to our technological skill, our skill may end us.
Whatever people say about America, it is still one of the most wonderful countries in the world, despite the politics, religion and everything else that goes on.
Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
We do not recruit (in the armed forces) on the basis of caste, religion, creed or region... We do not maintain data based on such classifications.
Religion is just mind control.
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
No matter what your religion, you should try to become a government program, for then you will have everlasting life.
The man whose acquaintance with the world does not lead him deeper than science leads him, will never understand what it is that the man with the spiritual vision finds in these natural phenomena. The water does not merely cleanse his limbs, but it p.
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.
religion is a bad way to start your relationship with God
When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them.
I guess the biggest thing is that I committed to a spiritual center before I do anything else. And I put some daily things in my life into practice and I maintain that, to make sure that I don't drop the ball.
Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.
I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment.
It questions religion and the certainty of established religion. But there's a huge adventure story there, slipping from our world to another. We are in the most fantastic of parallel worlds.
The great religions were not born in isolation from one another they cannot survive in isolation from one another.
Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not
For me, in a very general way it has just become this metaphor for an open-ended, spiritual journey. I'm not a religious person, but as you age, there is sort of a heightened spiritual awareness where you value friends more and each day ... more as a gift that you are given to use in some effective way. So, I have consciously sought (to create) images that have boats in them, never knowing how they are going to end up.
We salute you for your steadfastness in maintaining the faith of your ancestral tradition, as well as your love for the beautiful, spiritual, cultural and folk traditions in which you reverently persevere. Truly it is out of respect and love for the memory of your forebears that you have clung to your ecclesiastical and ancestral customs.
The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
Religions are all alike -- founded on fables and mythologies.
The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty
The memorial is about a person, not a religion. We just wanted a place to where we could have a brick with her name on it, and other people could have a brick with their child's name. It almost serves as a reminder that our children existed.
I think we all can identify with the journey of the main character (John) as he takes steps for deeper spirituality.
I also work with the spirituality of people.
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
Mosaics, in general, and inscribed mosaics in particular from the 3rd and 4th centuries are very rare, as is the wording of the inscription. This structure is indeed unique and significant to the understanding of the development of early Christianity into a recognized and official religion.
At Jerusalem, I went to the mosque and sat down. A man asked me what I wanted. I told him I was a Muslim. Now I realize I can get direct contact with God, unlike Christianity or any other religion.
I think people relate to the story for personal reasons. Some are interested in the mystery, some are interested in the spirituality and some are interested in the locations. I honestly think that a lot of people get a lot of different things out of it.
The koans do not represent the private opinion of a single man, but rather the highest principle ... that accords with the spiritual source, tallies with the mysterious meaning, destroys birth-and-death, and transcends the passions. It cannot be understood by logic it cannot be transmitted in words it cannot be explained in writing it cannot be measured by reason. It is like ... a great fire that consumes all who come near it.
Quite apart from his role as a spiritual guide to more than a billion men, women and children, he was a tireless advocate of peace, a true pioneer in interfaith dialogue and a strong force for critical self-evaluation by the Church itself,
We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham.
Harrison's spirituality was essential to his survival, ... He believed in reincarnation he believed that all things must pass. He wrote a song called 'The Art of Dying.' The idea that every soul is on a journey to perfection was something that was simply a fact for him.
We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess to know the right order of values and deliberately to choose the lower ones to know that, however much these values may differ with different people at different stages of spiritual growth, for one's self there must be no compromise with that which one knows to be the lower value.
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.
The best way to lose weight is to develop an orthodox belief in some religion that doesn't allow any fun.
All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.