“The central icon of Catholic Christianity is mother and child. That motif is so deep in not just our human experience but in our animal, biological past.” HumansChildrenPastMotherAnimalChristianityCatholicHuman ExperienceIconsMother And ChildMotifs Author:Robert Neelly Bellah
“Yet Buddhism is four hundred years older than Christianity, and if it's not a universal religion I don't know what a universal religion is. There's also a strong focus on selectionism and the notion that religion plays a functional role in the evolutionary process. But religion is dysfunctional all the time, as well as functional. It's not so simple.” IfsKnowsYearsWellsPlayStrongProcessSimpleChristianityRolesFocusFourBuddhismHundredUniversalNotion Author:Robert Neelly Bellah
