I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.
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.
Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states? If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being denounced as in a state of impermiss...
A free state is a corporate state.
The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.
The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.
We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese state has not been obliged to compete for power with rivals such as the church, the aristocracy or merchants.
We're not the States of America; we're the United States of America. If states don't get what they need, we're not going to have a successful plan, period.
First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada.
I say this because all religions, accurately understood, will take away your fear of not being enough. I believe there is a way to understand the tenets of your religion, right now, that will take away your fear and make you feel loved and safe. The ...
Ironic, isn't it, what religion does to people?" "I guess it's more ironic what people do to religion.
Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.
