Spirituality
"The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions."
Abraham Joshua Heschel
"Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one."
Elbert Hubbard
“Do not think of how big the universe is, it will merely hurt your head.”
Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism
"Christian: One who thinks the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor."
Ambrose Bierce
"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."
C.S. Lewis
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means."
Clarence Darrow
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
Blaise Pascal
Religion
Hinduism
Bhuddism
Wicca
Christianity
Islam
Judaism
Jehovah's Witness
Mormonism
Hare Krishna
Moonies
What is an Agnostic?
Spiritual Timing
Differences Between Orthodox and Catholic
Pentacostalism
Speaking in Tongues
Youth and Religion
Cults
Reincarnation
Jehovah's Witnesses-Women Who Are Leaving
The Single Woman's Guide to Religion...
Atheist
Religion
Throughout history, it has expressed the deepest questions human beings can ask, and it has taken a central place in the lives of virtually all civilizations and cultures. As we think all the way back to the dawn of human consciousness, we find religion everywhere we turn.
This may be true of the past, but what about the present - and the future?
In recent times, critics have suggested that religion is on the way out. Technology and science have changed our view of the world radically, leading some to say that we've entered a new stage of human existence, without religion. Soon, they argue, it will truly be a thing of the past.
Many conservative Christians refer to Christianity not as a religion but as an intensely personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Many Native Americans believe that their spiritual beliefs and practices are not a religion in the normal sense of the term. They form a integral and seamless part of their very being, totally integrated into their life experience.