Stephen R. Prothero quote — “If religion is about the sacred as opposed to the profane, the spirit …”

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If religion is about the sacred as opposed to the profane, the spirit as opposed to matter, the Creator as opposed to the created, Confucianism plainly does not qualify. But perhaps what we are to learn from this tradition is not that Confucianism is not a religion but that not all religious people parse the sacred and the secular the way Christians do.

Stephen R. Prothero God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religion… christianity religion spirituality

William Paul Young religion

If religion is true, one must believe. And if one chooses not to believe, one’s choice is marked under the category of a refusal, and is thus never really free: it has the duress o…

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'Babel' is about the point of view of others. It literally includes points of views as experienced from the other side. It is not about a hero. It is not about only one country. It…

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