philosophy-of-religion

Experience, derived from scientific investigation, led to all the scientific literature in history. Likewise, experience, derived from religious transcendence, led to all the religious scriptures in history. It's never the other way around.

When circumstances pour the minds of some young helpless individuals with hatred and rage towards the society, and when that pain, hatred, and rage become unbearable, they turn to the scriptures as the final resort, in a pursuit to find absolution, guided by the psychopathic, misogynistic, genocidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent, fundamentalist preachers.

Belief is indeed psychologically important for the human mind of general population, but that belief should be nicely compatible with scientific reasoning, otherwise that belief turns into prejudice, which is never beneficial to the human life.

It has always been science versus fundamentalism, not science versus religion.

There is no "religious language" or "scientific language". There is rather the international notation of mathematics and logic; and English, French, Spanish and the like. In short, "religious discourse" and "scientific discourse" are part of the same overall conceptual structure. Moreover, in that conceptual structure there is a large amount of discourse, which is neither religious nor scientific, that is constantly being utilized by both the religious man and the scientist when they make religious and scientific claims. In short, they share a number of key categories.

One who does not believe in the self is an atheist. If you believe in yourself, then you are the most religious person on earth.

All religions are mere echoes of this one great religion of Humanism.

Religion is an experience, not a bunch of doctrines.

In most cases, people argue over the term God, without having the perception of another person__ own idea of the word. Hence, often people with an atheistic perspective of the world attribute the God of many religious individuals to be an angry, authoritarian and vengeful God who acts like a human being and lives in the clouds or in heaven. But the irony is, most religious individuals do not conceive God in an anthropomorphic or angry way. Rather, in their personal psychological domain of religious or spiritual beliefs, they conceive God in more abstract, spiritual and merciful way.

Everybody dies. Including your messiahs. And gods.

Dare to contradict the scientist, not because of your scripture, but because of your own rational thinking.

There has been more bloodshed in the name of God than for any other cause. And it is all because people never attempt to reach the fountain-head. They are content only to comply with the customs of their forefathers, and want others to do the same.

Science works through replication, rectification and modification. But when it comes to religion, people simply tend to accept the theoretical preachers and their claims of historical God experiences without a single question. If there has been one experience in this world in any branch of knowledge, it absolutely follows that that experience will be repeated eternally. If they are not repeated through natural processes, the thinking humanity would have no way but to disprove that such an experience ever occurred in the history.

My Sikh sisters and brothers proclaim with utter glory and faith __o Bole So Nihaal, Sat Sri Akaal_, I say __o Anubhava So Nihaal, Sat Sri Akaal_. My translation of the former is __e who utters __reat Eternal Truth_ becomes joyous_, while the latter translates to __e who experiences __reat Eternal Truth_ becomes joyous_.

The greatest Church is within you, and it is made of love, courage and conscience.

The same Sermon on the Mount that influenced Tolstoy to write __he Kingdom of God is Within You_, inspired me to a great extent in my work __rincipia Humanitas_.

Any scripture that demands irrefutable obedience must be discarded at once.

Christ the man died long ago, but Christ the idea of love, still exists, not in any church, rather in the mind of humans.