MY RELIGIOSITY, said einstein, consists in humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit which reveals itself in what little we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality.
I cannot conceive of a personal god who would sit in judgment of creatures of his own creation. Morality is of the highest importance for mankind, but not for god.
It is beyond me, said goethe, how anyone can believe that god speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal itself to us, if our hearts do not tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we will most assuredlly not learn it from books, which, at best, are designed only to give names to our errors.
We resist the truth, said goethe, only because we fear we might perish if we accepted it.
Of the eleven thousand religions, roughly, which adhere on earth, it seems unlikely that any one of them is the truth, to the exclusion of all the others. Maybe they are all true, maybe none of them.
We fear to discuss religion and politics, or we eagerly await discussing them, perhaps because we fear that someone might demonstrate error in our long held cherished beliefs. We fear nothing so much as the disproving, destruction of what we dearly believe.
Anyone who enters into debate willing to accept what others believe is immediately lost.
To be truly open minded in this world of dogma is to be an outcast.
And, of course, its far easier to cling to our beliefs than to put them into practice.
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