Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
Mary Douglas | religion Read More »
My sense of religion is Einstein’s sense of relativity. I don’t believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
Mandy Patinkin | religion Read More »
It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.
H. P. Blavatsky | religion Read More »
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
Peter Jennings | religion Read More »
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
Ben Kingsley | religion Read More »
There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.
Ernest Istook | religion Read More »