Much terror in religion is not the will of god, it is created by power hungry clerics who thirst for absolute power and claim it for god. God does not seek power, he is already powerful.
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Can really anybody put his hand on his heart and profess to know beyond doubt what happens on the other side of this life?
Apologetics=faith is weak, lets defend it
Spiritual leaders, priests and prophets are lamps burning in the dark, seeking meaning for humanity.
Give me something to worship whatever._ Cries the human soul
Why do religious believers hate unbelievers? The feel threatened by them, they feel besieged by them. Religions consider themselves as separate tribes in their own rights and feel like unbelievers will one day overrun their strongholds
Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam, Why doesn't the Ayatollahs convert to Buddhism, Why isn't Buddhism swept away? Religious leaders know that all religions are equal; they know that no one of them has the monopoly to the knowledge of God. They know that each religion is trying to find the hidden God and that no one religion can claim to have found him beyond doubt. That's why they remain where they are and respect each other.
Good gods are scarce because the majority of gods are created by evil men
Science cannot disprove god. Science studies the things that are. The eternal question is who or what made them to be
Religion should teach about hope to come for all, not terror for some
Every word that comes after "And the Lord told me. . . __s a pious lie
Some people are so stiff and inhumane as the dogma's they believe in
Oneness is God.
Religion is to be realized, not read or taught.
The idea that I could work wonders as the Lord flutters through my mind like a glamorous butterfly. I hasten to catch it, but it escapes into the depths of my mind.
Why is true success so relatively effortless? It might be likened to the magnetic field created by an electric current running through a wire. The higher the power of the current, the greater the magnetic field that it generates. And the magnetic field itself then influences everything in its presence. There are very few at the top. The world of the mediocre, however, is one of intense competition, and the bottom of the pyramid is crowded. Charismatic winners are sought out; losers have to strive to be accepted. People who are loving, kind, and thoughtful of others have more friends than they can count; success in every area of life is a reflex to those who are aligned with successful patterns. And the capacity to be able to discern the difference between the strong patterns of success and the weak patterns leading to failure is now available to each of us.
Love is the binding force of the universe. It is an ongoing flow that unites all of creation.
Through our chanting we merge our personal consciousness momentarily with the infinite consciousness that is our origin and our destiny. It is the drop of water finding its way back into the ocean from which it came.