We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children.
I've dabbled in several different religions.
I like to read about different religions - Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism.
The good news is that a vast majority of Indians from different religions see no contradiction between religiosity and liberalism, keep India stable. We religious liberals don't talk loudly enough.
All different religions have laws based on fear, the fear of going to hell.
Fundamentalism takes different forms in different religions, but there is one striking similarity in all forms of fundamentalist thought. Each wishes dearly to hold in check all varieties of 'modern' or 'decadent' thinking.
I know 'Vikings' isn't really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.
One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.'
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.
In all religions, the quickening spirit has been symbolically represented as a bird. At the baptism, when Jesus' body was in the water, the Spirit of Christ descended into it as a dove.
Donald Trump tests the limits of campaign speech. He makes false statements and refuses to correct them. He attacks other religions and ethnic groups, inflaming domestic tension and foreign terrorist rage.
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right.
Extremism is no more the monopoly of Islam than it is the monopoly of other religions, including Christianity.
There are those who argue that the public celebration of festivals such as Christmas should be discouraged, in the questionable belief that it might somehow offend those of other religions or none.
I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades, who also happens to be Muslim.
Across the globe, fundamentalists of all religions are on one side, and their attitudes towards women and towards female sexuality are almost identical.
The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.
