Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.
Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.
It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.
These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
Detachment, properly understood, means freedom, inner freedom. And, although it is not a word Jesus used, detachment expresses very well an important element in his spirituality: the ability to let go. In the Christian tradition this has been spoken ...
Possibility means "freedom". The measure of freedom enters into the concept of man. That the objective possibilities exist for people not to die of hunder and that people do die of hunger, has its importance, or so one would have thought. But the exi...
Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man. One whose mind is not free ...
I believe in the freedom of expression, for to speak up against any form of oppression is Justice. But I cannot speak the same way for all when motives are to be measured. We must also accept that since we value the freedom of expression, we need to ...
Evil prevails when good people do nothing.
Freedom for freedoms sake." ~R. Alan Woods [2006]
It was the freedom to experiment that made this experiment called Freedom possible.
True freedom comes from being unknown.
True freedom and power only comes when one is free of attachments.
Denying yourself a life of personal freedom is denying yourself of a life worth living.
While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.
We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.
