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~ What I conclude is that religion has nothing to do with experience or reason but with deep and irrational needs ~ ~ Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion. ~ ~ Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide. ~ ~ Toleration is the best religion. ~ ~ I cannot exist without you. I am forgetful of everything but seeing you again. My life seems to stop there, I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I
have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving. I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion... I have
shudder'd at it... I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion: Love is my religion. I could die for that. I could die for you. My creed is love, and you are its only tenet. You have ravish'd me away by a power I cannot resist ~ ~ If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. ~ ~ It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so ~ ~ The most henious and the must cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives. ~ ~ Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost. ~ ~ Zen is non-serious. Zen has a tremendous sense of humor. No other religion has evolved so much that it can have that sense of humor. ~ ~ Canadian politics in British Columbia is an adventure, on the Prairies a cause, in Ontario a business, in Quebec a religion, in the Maritimes a disease. ~ ~ Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts. ~ ~ To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity. ~ ~ Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts. ~ ~ The main question I shall probe is the extent to which, and the manner in which, Buddhism, as a religion espoused by Sri Lankans of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, has contributed to the current ethnic conflict and collective violence in Sri Lanka. ~ ~ Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one`s own religion. ~ ~ All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. ~ ~ Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions ~ ~ Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. ~ ~ The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. ~ ~ Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis ~ ~ Football has taken the place of religion in Scotland. ~ ~ I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes. ~ ~ Religion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy. ~ ~ In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. . . . ~ ~ All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion. ~ ~ I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace. ~ ~ A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. ~ ~ When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. ~ ~ Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe. ~ |
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