Quotes About Religions

Conversion was not a widely known phenomenon in antiquity. Pagan religions had almost nothing like it. They were polytheistic, and anyone who decided, as a pagan, to worship a new or different god was never required to relinquish any former gods or their previous patterns of worship. Pagan religions were additive, not restrictive.

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. What we need on this furiously religious planet is a realistic view of where religious rivals clash and where they can cooperate.

While I do not believe we are not witnessing a clash of civilizations between Christianity and Islam, it is a fantasy to imagine that the world's two largest religions are in any meaningful sense the same, or that interfaith dialogue between Christians and Muslims will magically bridge the gap.

At the heart of this project is a simple, four-part approach to the religions, which I have been using for years in the classroom and at lectures around the world. Each religion articulates: * a problem ; * a solution to this problem, which also serves as the religious goal; * a technique (or techniques) for moving from this problem to this solution; and * an exemplar (or exemplars) who chart this path from problem to solution.

Left-wing and right-wing political ideologies have themselves become secular religions, providing people with a community of like-minded brethren, a catechism of sacred beliefs, a well-populated demonology, and a beatific confidence in the righteousness of their cause. In

The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.

Love is verily the heart of all religions.

Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate.

I love all religions, but I am in love with my own.

Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth.

Maybe it's fear that prevents us from doing so. Such a discovery would alter the course of history as we know it. We would have to acknowledge that we weren't the species supreme in our own universe. The impact on religions and philosophy alone would be incredible.

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.

We should respect all religions and just believe in peace, kindness and harmony.

All nationalism is dangerous; all religions are dangerous.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest.

Germany wants peaceful coexistence of Muslims and members of other religions.

All different religions have laws based on fear, the fear of going to hell.

I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.

The more religions are fixated on having a dogmatic sense of truth, the more likely they are to blow each other up. So being open to God as a creative principle could provide for a new kind of dialogue between the faiths, which I think is crucial at this time.

Every place in the world where there are two peoples - two religions, two languages - there is friction and conflict.

There is far more misunderstanding of Islam than there is, I think, of the other religions of the world. So many things are said of it by those who do not belong to that faith.

I respect people of all sexualities; I respect people of all religions, all faiths. I love all Australians.