“Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as a potential good, but with equal clarity they saw the religions of existing institutions and religions based on a fixed scriptural revelation as meddlesome, wrong-headed and hopelessly obsolete.” FatherNaturalSawsAtheismEqualEnlightenmentInstitutionsPositive AtheismClarityFixedRevelationsFoundingSympatheticObsoleteMeddlesome Author:Edwin Gaustad
“Just as the waves can subside to reveal the stillness of the ocean's depths, so too is it possible to calm the turbulence of our mind to reveal its natural pristine clarity.” MindNaturalOceanDepthCalmWaveClarityStillnessTurbulencePristine Book:How to Meditate: A Practical Guide: Second Edition (Large Print 16pt) Source: How to Meditate: A Practical Guide: Second Edition (Large Print 16pt)
“Certainly in order to understand the natural world one needs clarity, logic, and the capacity for theory building. But that understanding tends to improve because and to the extent that it is provisional, hypothetical, when it looks for disconfirmation in the particular rather than final proof as a universal.” WorldNeedsLooksOrderUnderstandingNaturalBuildingParticularTheoryCapacityLogicUniversalFinalsProofClarityNatural WorldHypothetical Author:Talal Asad