Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper! Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
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. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
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. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
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. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>