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The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us. ↗

— Richard Wright

#american #native-son #race #religion #us

Many questing young people and stressed older people nowadays seek relaxation through meditation. They look for it in Hindu, Buddhist and other Eastern religions. They are often surprised to learn that there is such a way within the Christian tradition, a way that is known as contemplation. ↗

— Ray Simpson

#christianity #contempative-prayer #contemplation #eastern-religion #meditation

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#civilization

The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name of God (though not Jesus), glorify America's heroes and history,quote its sacred texts (the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution), and perform the transubstantiation of pluribus unum. ↗

— Jonathan Haidt

#politics #presidents #psychology #religion #religion

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness. ↗

— Immanuel Wallerstein

#capitalism #human-rights #religion #universalism #religion

From the house of unbelief to true religion is a single breath; From the world of doubt to certainty is a single breath; Enjoy this precious single breath, for the harvest of our whole lives is that same one breath. ↗

— Omar Khayyám

#certainty #doubt #lifetime #lives #religion

Religion is a positive thing and in individualistic religion it cannot be so proved but it bears its own proof in universalism. Yes, in individualism it is confined within one individual and the rest of the mankind have got to believe him, whereas in the Universalism, the people realize and they speak. Universalism means the seer of God becomes God and attains Godhood and the proof it bears that He will be seen by thousand others within their bodies and they shall announce it. ↗

— sri jibankrishna or Diamond

#godhood #individualism #religion #universalism #religion

Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers. ↗

— Alfred Edersheim

#perspective #religion #religion

The anti-religious modernism which now threatens Islam and Muslims everywhere can be fully understood only by understanding the religion of the civilization in whose bosom modernism first developed, against which it rebelled, and whose tenets it has been challenging through constant battle since the birth of the modern world in the Renaissance. ↗

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#islam #modernism #religion

A worldview is a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions (assumptions which may be true, partially true or entirely false) which we hold (consciously or subconsciously, consistently or inconsistently) about the basic constitution of reality, and that provides the foundations on which we live and more and have our being. ↗

— James W. Sire

#ideology #narrative #philosophy #presupposition #reality