There is one sure criterion of judgment as to religious faith in doctrinal matters; can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it..
During our religious instruction in school, we always asked: How can one prove the existence of God? And I have learned that the Catholic Church, whi….
The rabbis, the Jewish religious people, the priests of the temple of Jerusalem, they were learned fools. They could not tolerate Jesus. The learned ….
I don't like to say that my kitchen is a religious place, but I would say that if I were a voodoo priestess, I would conduct my rituals there..
When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued wit….
In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and eve….
I don't travel in circles where people say, 'I have faith, I believe this in my heart and nothing you can say or do can shake my faith.' That's just ….
Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and child….
My view of Christianity is that the hallmark of being a Christian is to reach out to people who have been left behind. So I think there was a religio….
Phil Cousineau has created a fine companion book to accompany the important film he and Gary Rhine have made in defense of the religious traditions o….
Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier..
Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribe….
People complain that the religious ground is unsure who have never compelled themselves to examine it with a tithe of the care spent on a contract; b….
With the man in the woman, and the woman in the man. In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man..
The Place of Religion in Chicago is a clearly written account of a little-studied aspect of American landscape. Based on unique field surveys and sup….
To abdicate from the rule of reason and substitute for it an authentication of belief by the intentness and degree of conviction with which we hold i….
I was very religious when I was younger. I went to a seminary for three years, studied to be a priest, and um, so that sort of natural idealism just ….
The essence nature of the Brahmin is an urge to know the truth...the true Brahmin pursues truth at all costs and will not permit considerations of co….
The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in some faith or fantasy, th….
In most cases, obviously, soldiers fought because a government drafted them and gave them a rifle. At every point too, we see the role of nationalist….
The typical WW1 soldier was not an intellectual like Ernst Jünger or Wilfred Owen, but was a peasant draftee from Galicia or Bavaria or Sicily, with ….