Not exact matches
For me, any
religious system that gives or promises to give peace of mind is idolatrous; the price we pay for «peace of mind» will be nothing less
than the sacrifice of something basic to our own
humanity.
Rather
than making
humanity less
religious, as Freud believed, secularlism is driving an increase in
religious fundamentalism and often violent fundamentalism.
In The
Humanity of God, Barth stated — with a curious reference to his former characterization of God as the «wholly other» — that his eyes had been opened «to the fact that God might actually be wholly other
than the God confined to the musty shell of the Christian
religious self - consciousness.»
I do agree that
religious belief is doing more harm
than good to
humanity in todays world, I am not sure that enough people have the intellectual ability to embrace the fact that their belief system is not based in reality.
They make up two of the largest
religious groups worldwide, comprising more
than half of
humanity.