“Nostalgia is also a trait of the organizations that I call lodges - everything from corporate cultures to religious sects. Their bonding power often exceeds loyalty to family or country because they create intimacy through shared ideals and beliefs, ceremonies, stories, and legends, and depend on it for their survival. The message is clear: Don't question what we're doing. Just appreciate how long we've been doing it.” LongCountryStoriesCultureBeliefReligiousBusinessClearDependsMessagesSurvivalIdealsAppreciateOrganizationNostalgiaLoyaltyIntimacyCorporateLegendsTraitsCeremonyExceedSectsBondingCorporate CultureLodgesReligious Sects Book:Thinking In The Future Tense Source: Thinking In The Future Tense
“It is evident from their writings that the Founding Fathers would never have tolerated the separation that we have embraced today. They knew that religious principles provided morality and self-control - the lifeblood for the survival of any self-governing community.” WritingSelfTodayChristianFatherCommunityReligiousPrinciplesMoralitySurvivalSeparationSelf ControlEvidentFoundingGoverning Author:David Barton
“This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some of it, however, is also happening within the existing churches and religious institutions wherever the members of those congregations do not identify with rigid and exclusive belief systems whose unconscious purpose is to foster a sense of separation on which the egoic mind structures depend for their survival.” MindSpiritualPurposeBeliefChurchReligiousDependsMembersSurvivalHappeningsInstitutionsStructureAwakeningSeparationScalesUnconsciousExclusiveSpiritual AwakeningBelief SystemsCongregationLarge Scale Author:Eckhart Tolle
“I think it's part of my personality, to find sex really interesting. Not just in the puerile way of, "Oh I want to go and have some sex". It's fascinating, there's an entire realm of human activity that's important and literally vital to our survival and yet we've vilified it. That's one of the reasons that religious station is so fascinating to me.” ThinkingWayWantHumansImportantReasonSexReligiousInterestingPersonalityActivitySurvivalRealmsFascinatingStationsReally InterestingHuman Activity Author:Brad Warner
“Throughout history, religious differences have divided men and women from their neighbors and have served as justification for some of humankind's bloodiest conflicts. In the modern world, it has become clear that people of all religions must bridge these differences and work together, to ensure our survival and realize the vision of peace that all faiths share.” PeopleMenWorldTogetherRealizingDifferencesReligiousVisionClearShareModernConflictSurvivalMen And WomenNeighborBridgesWorking TogetherDividedHumankindJustificationModern WorldReligious Differences Author:Prince Hassan bin Talal
“If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.” IfsReligionFaithReligiousParticularSurvivalKarma Author:Dalai Lama
“Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.” HumansReligiousBusinessCompassionBuddhismEssentialsSurvivalLuxuryStabilityCompassionateKindness And CompassionGoodness And KindnessHuman KindnessHuman CompassionMental PeaceMental Stability Author:Dalai Lama
“Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks idealism in any form, and hence belief in a hereafter is absolutely foreign to him. And a religion in the Aryan sense cannot be imagined which lacks the conviction of survival after death in some form. Indeed, the Talmud is not a book to prepare a man for the hereafter, but only for a practical and profitable life in this world.” IfsMenWorldBookReasonFormBeliefReligiousSpecialThis WorldSurvivalOriginalsInstitutionsJewConvictionDuesPracticalsCatholicismIdealismProfitableAfter DeathHereafterMein Kampf Book:Mein Kampf Source: Mein Kampf
“We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture – at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between useful survival information and the emotional and psychological manipulations of religion. Once infected, these ideas are deeply embedded and almost impossible to change.” ChildrenIdeasCultureLanguageReligiousImpossibleInformationEmotionalSurvivalConceptsPsychologicalAcquireManipulationEmbeddedPsychological Manipulation Author:Darrel Ray
“All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and bodily functions, or from customs necessary for the survival of the group in social and economic circumstances that now lie in the distant past.” PastLyingSocialSexReligiousViewsMoralGroupsEconomicParticularCircumstancesJudgmentSurvivalFunctionJudgementCustomsDiscardedMoral JudgmentBodily FunctionsMoral Judgement Author:Peter Singer