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| “Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, [belief in] in a divine mind and will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with [hu]mankind.” |
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| “Religion is that which grows out of, and gives expression to, experience of the holy in its various aspects.” |
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| “Religion is the recognition of all our [ethical] duties as divine commands.” |
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| “Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of the meaning of our life.” |
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| “Religion centers upon an awareness and response to a reality that transcends ourselves and our world whether the direction of transcendence be beyond or within or both…this object is characterized more generally as a cosmic power, or more specifically as a personal God.” |
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| “Religion is an infantile illusion: adult human beings cope with their impotence in the face of hostile nature, …” |
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| “[Religion is a realistic story created and disseminated by the wealthy and powerful to justify the status quo to the poor and weak, in order to inhibit the poor and weak from rebelling against the status quo.] “Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature…The opiate of the masses.” |
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| “Religion is that system of activities and beliefs directed toward and in response to that which is perceived to be of sacred value and transforming power.” |
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| “Since the infinite must be everywhere and in all things, we have not to consider whether this applies to God.” |
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| “Perfect is my victory: for I have rent the sky I have befouled it with murk and darkness, I hav made it my stronghold…” |
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| Yin and Yang are component parts of which type of conception of the ultimate. |
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| “The king said “revered Nagansena what is the reason that men are not all the same, some being short-lived, some weakly, others healthy, some ugly, others comely..” |
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| “For God as we have seen embraces in himself the whole perfection of existence. Now many Gods if they existed, would have to differ. Something belonging to one would not belong to the other…” |
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| Suffering as a Test/Condition for Soul-Making |
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| “And the Lord said to Satan, Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears god…” |
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| “Man’s nature, indeed, was created at first faultless and without any sin; but that nature of man in which every one is born from Adam..” |
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| “This is the …truth of pain; birth is painful old age is paiful sickness..” |
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| “Who is this whose ignorant words cloud my design in darkness? Brace yourself and stand up like a man; I will ask questions, and you shall answer…” |
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| “As the bees, my dear, prepare honey by collecting the essences of different types of trees and reducing the essence to a unity, as they are not able to discriminate..” |
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| “I was alone upon the seashore as al those thoughts flowed over me, liberating and reconciling…..” |
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| Theodicy of Submission II |
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| “Who is this who’s ignorant words cloud my design in darkness? Brace yourself and stand up like a man….” |
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| Suffering as a Test/Condition for Soul-Making II |
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| “Surely We (Allah) will try you with something of fear and hunger, and diminution of Good, and lives and fruits….” |
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| “One evening they collapsed with fatigue, They were four to fall asleep; they were three to rise. The father dug a grave for his wife, and the children recited the Kaddish…” |
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| Suffering as a Recompense for Sin |
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| “And the Lord said by his servants the prophets, ‘Because Manassah, King of Judah, has committed these abominations… And has made Judah…” |
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| Karma-Samsara Theodicy II |
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| “Even a flight in the air cannot free you from suffering after the deed which is evil has been committed. Nor in the sky nor in the ocean’s middle, nor if you were to hide in the cracks of the mountains….” |
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| Future-Other Worldly Theodicy |
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| “(The angel Gabriel said:) Peace be unto thee, O Muhammad the elect, God hath sent thee a message saying,’ None has suffered the pain and afflictions which Husain has undergone…” |
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| Theodicy of Submission III |
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| “We dare not speak on God’s behalf to explain why He allowed thses particular acts of evil to happen at this time to these persons and in this manner. Yet at the same time, we dare not be silent….” |
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| Suffering as a Test/Condition for Soul-Making III |
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| “All things work together for the good of those that love the lord” |
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| Mystical Participation II |
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| “Social ritual transforms the individual event (the crisis encountered at various stages of life) into a typical case, just as it transforms biography into an episode…” |
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| Future-This Worldly Theodicy |
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| “The world is dominated by an evil, tyrannous power of boundless destructiveness- a power moreover which is imagined not as simply human but as demonic, The tyranny…” |
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| Suffering as a Recompense for Sin II |
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| “Speaking about the cause of the attacks on 9/11, the late Jerry Falwell, a prominent American Baptist evangelical leader said, “ I know that I’ll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God uot of public square..” |
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| “Whence do these rules of decorum arise? From the fact that men are born with desires, and when these desires are not satisfied..” |
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| “Most of us are inclined by nature to live in a fool’s paradise, to look on the brighter side of life, and to maximize it’s unpleasant sides…” |
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| “The quality of being the image of God is co-essential to man because it is one with the rationality of his nature. To be a mind is to be naturally capable…” |
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| “ We act very much as if we were on a voyage. What can I do? I can choose out the helmsman, the sailors, the day, the moment. Then a storm arises. What do I care?...” |
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| “These two extremes… are not to be practiced by one who has gone forth from the world. What the two? That conjoined with passions and luxury, low, vulgar, common, ignoble, and useless…” |
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| “ Man’s nature, indeed, was created at first faultless and without any sin; but ath nature of man in which every one is born from adam..” |
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| “Think often on the swiftness with which things that exist and are coming into existence are swept past us and carried out of sight..” |
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| “Whence do these rules of decorum arise? From the fact tat men are born with desires and when these desires are not satisfied, men are bound |
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| Mystical Participation III |
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| “Social ritual transforms the individual event the crises encountered at carious stages of life…” |
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| “If you lead the people by means of regulations and keep order among them by means of punishments, they will be without conscience…” |
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| “The world is dominated by an evil tyrannous power of boundless destrictiness- a power moreover which is imaged…” |
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| “The quality of being the image of God is co-essential to man because it is one with the rationality of his nature. To be a mind is to be naturally…..” |
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| Suffering as a Recompense for Sin III |
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| “Speaking abou the cause of the attacks on 9/11, the late jerry falwell..” |
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| “I have never had revelations through anesthetics, but a kind of waking trance- this for lack of a better word- I have frequently had..” |
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| “These two extremes… are not to be practiced by one who ahs gone forth from the world what are the two….” |
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| In we cannot “see” ourselves in the product of our work and thus our lives seem empty |
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| “Now this monks is the…truth of the cessation of pain: the cessation without a remainder of craving the abandonment….” |
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| “The Fates lead him who is willing; they constrain him who is unwilling” |
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| “The five aggregates together constitute what is called the I or personality of the individual. The aggregates are not parts of peices of an individual but phases or forms of decelopment something like the shape color……” |
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| “Of all things to which the people owe their lives the rites are the most important. If it were not for the rites, they would have no means of regulating the services paid to the spirits of Heaven and Earth; if it were not for the rites, they would have no means of distinguishing…” |
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| “For pride is the beginning of all sin. And what is pride but an appetitive for inordinate exaltation. Now, exaltation is the inordinate when the soul cuts itself…” |
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| “Remember that you are an actor in a play and the Playwright chooses the manner of it: if he wants it short, it is short; if long, it is long. If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or…” |
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| “This is the… cause of pain: the craving, which tends to rebirth, combined with pleasure and lust, finding pleasure here and there, namely, the craving for passion, the craving for existence, the craving for non-existence” |
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| “Whence do these rules of decorum arise? Fom the fact that men are born with desires and when these desires are no satisfied men are bound to pursue their satisfaction. When the pursuit is carried on unrestrained and unlimited, there is bound to be contention..” |
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| Buddhism III (key word: suffering) |
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| “Most of us are inclined by nature to live in a fools paradise, to look on the brighter side of life, and to minimize its unpleasant sides. To dwell on suffering runs normally counter to our inclinations….” |
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