Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God, and even to go to war on God's behalf. This 'blasphemy of certainty' is also rife among secularists who in their case have not God but science or the proletariat on their side.
Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God, and even … - Stephen Prothero
Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God, and even …
- Stephen Prothero
Pretending that the world’s religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more dangerous. Wha… - Stephen Prothero
Pretending that the world’s religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more dangerous. Wha…
Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting. - Stephen Prothero
Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.
At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or Buddhism's Four Noble… - Stephen Prothero
At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or Buddhism's Four Noble…
At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe and the United States in the 1960s, it has been fashionable to affirm tha… - Stephen Prothero
At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe and the United States in the 1960s, it has been fashionable to affirm tha…
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