“Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.” Has BeensSpiritualityGoalReligiousCompassionKeysEasierEnlightenmentTestsDoctrineConformitySetting GoalsStressedReligious Life Author:Karen Armstrong
“It is evident, from their method of propagation, that a couple of cats, in fifty years, would stock a whole kingdom; and if that religious veneration were still paid them, it would, in twenty more, not only be easier in Egypt to find a god than a man, which Petronius says was the case in some parts of Italy; but the gods must at last entirely starve the men, and leave themselves neither priests nor votaries remaining.” IfsMenYearsStillsWholeLastsReligiousCasesHe ManCoupleEasierCatPaidTwentiesMethodKingdomsFiftyPriestsEvidentEgyptVenerationPropagation Book:A Dissertation on the Passions: The Natural History of Religion : a Critical Edition Source: A Dissertation on the Passions: The Natural History of Religion : a Critical Edition