The search for religion is the starting point of thought.
Category: religion
Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.
I’m sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don’t think there’s any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.
I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.
I can’t understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that’s not religion, that’s not helping humanity, that’s organizing an army to defeat somebody.
But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.