For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism and our second great philosopher was an agnostic. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>