Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>