Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and belief. They feared other tribes and often warred against them.
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.
The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies.
If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too.
To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.
Many people who say they have no religion are simply saying they have no official religious affiliation. They may actually have strong personal beliefs.
In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.
For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.
People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship.
In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous.
While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a tendency to religious feelings. Some of the genes likely to be involved are those which control levels of di...
Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards ...
Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.
To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
