“From my observations, it would seem that the core message of most major religions is right, just and pure. For this reason I can not help but conclude that evil acts committed by religious people are committed not because of their religion, but in spite of it.” PeopleLifeI CanReasonHelpingSeemsEvilReligiousPureMajorsMessagesCommittedCoreObservationSpiteCan Not Author:Derek R. Audette
“Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing. The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our own negative thoughts, our own violent thoughts, our own hateful thoughts-not other people's thoughts.” PeopleThinkingJesusReligiousSimplePracticeTaughtMajorsNegativePoliceViolentHatefulLiberatedNegative ThoughtsReligious Practices Author:Richard Rohr
“The Place of Religion in Chicago is a clearly written account of a little-studied aspect of American landscape. Based on unique field surveys and supported by photographs, tables, and beautifully crafted maps, the book will form a lasting contribution to our understanding of an overlooked element of the American urban scene: the religious landscape of a major metropolis.” LittlesBookFormUnderstandingReligiousWrittenFieldsSceneElementsMajorsUniqueAspectAccountsTablesPhotographLandscapeContributionMapsLastingChicagoUrbanSurveysOverlookedMetropolisAmerican Landscape Author:Peter Haggett
“I kept careful record of the impact of religion on the election in my county. The religious issue permeated every meeting I conducted. It influenced Republicans and Democrats alike. Ministers preached politics publicly and churches distributed the most vicious electioneering materials. Practically no one I met escaped the pressure of this overriding problem and both parties were ultimately forced to make their major calculations with the religious question a foremost consideration.” ProblemChurchReligiousPartyIssuesRecordsAtheismMaterialsRepublicanMetsMajorsPressureElectionImpactMeetingsDemocratCarefulMinistersConsiderationViciousCalculationsCounty Author:James A. Michener
“Religious traditions hold enormous value, extraordinary wisdom, breathtaking insights into the human experience, but they are limited to the degree that there has not been a new theological idea expressed by any of the major religions for thousands of years.” YearsHumansIdeasValuesReligiousDegreesMajorsTraditionExtraordinaryInsightEnormousHuman ExperienceTheologicalBreathtakingReligious Traditions Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“Unfortunately, the source of all this conflict between the Sunnis and Shia is some major powers that do not want religious unity amongst Muslims.” WantReligiousSourceConflictMajorsUnityShia Author:Yousef Saanei
“Susannah Heschel's The Aryan Jesus is a brilliant and erudite investigation of the convergence between major trends in German Protestantism and Nazi racial anti-Semitism. By concentrating on the history of the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Religious Life, Heschel describes in forceful detail the Nazification of all aspects of Protestant theology, including the Aryanization of Jesus himself. This is a highly original and important contribution to our understanding of the Third Reich.” ImportantJesusUnderstandingReligiousStudyInfluenceMajorsAspectThirdsOriginalsIncludingDetailsBrilliantTheologyContributionTrendsInvestigationNaziInstituteProtestantsConcentratingAnti SemitismProtestantismReligious LifeConvergenceEruditeImportant Contributions Author:Saul Friedlander
“However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.” ThinkingValuesReligiousEconomicMajorsEconomicsRootsFundamentalsMereDeeperOppositionEcology Book:Naked emperors: essays of a taboo-stalker Source: Naked emperors: essays of a taboo-stalker
“Over the years since I became a Christian, I have always deliberately explained that I have 'accepted Jesus Christ.' These words are invariably translated into 'Colson's professed religious experience.' I discovered that one major U.S. daily, as a matter of policy, will not print the two words Jesus Christ together; when combined, the editor says, it represents an editorial judgment.” YearsTwoMatterChristianTogetherJesusChristReligiousPolicyJudgmentMajorsJesus ChristAcceptedPrintEditorsEditorialsReligious Experience Author:Charles Colson
“Today religion is increasingly pushed aside by secularizing influences such as the university, the media, and politics. Rather than having a major voice in public life, religion has been relegated to the private and the personal.” Has BeensTodayChristianVoiceReligiousInfluenceMediaMajorsUniversityPublic Life Author:Paul Copan
“Many evangelicals believe religious freedom, if not religion itself, faces major problems with the government in the future.” IfsBelieveProblemGovernmentChristianFacesReligiousMajorsReligious FreedomMajor Problems Author:Joel Hunter
“In the major institutions of education, government, science, and the arts, we are witnessing the imposition of a post-Christian view of life. It now dominates in motion pictures, television, and every other form of entertainment.” ArtGovernmentChristianFormReligiousViewsTelevisionMajorsInstitutionsEntertainmentPostsMotion PicturesImposition Author:D. James Kennedy
“What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics.” IdeasChristianForceReligiousMajorsPrejudiceGenuineAbsurdAmerican PoliticsAnti Christian Author:Michael Kinsley
“Powerful groups with anti-Christian worldviews dominate major media and major educational institutions.” ChristianReligiousPowerfulGroupsMediaMajorsInstitutionsEducationalWorldviewAnti ChristianEducational InstitutionsChristian Worldview Author:Marvin Olasky
“Today's secular libertarians, who want to remove biblical religion from public life, have trouble making sense of the civil rights movement because it was so clearly a religiously inspired movement that entered the public arena and made a major difference in American life.” WantMadeTodayChristianDifferencesReligiousRightsTroubleMovementMajorsInspiredLibertarianCivil RightsMake SenseRemoveBiblicalSecularArenaPublic LifeCivil Rights MovementAmerican LifeTrouble Making Author:Bruce L. Shelley
“I always emphasize that it is much safer and better to keep one's own religious faith. The other major religions are thousands of years old and have long traditions.” YearsLongReligiousMajorsTraditionReligious Faith Author:Dalai Lama