Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>