Sentences with phrase «irreligion which»

Contrarily, the evidence of our century suggests that the totalitarian impulse is implicit rather than accidental in doctrinaire irreligion which adores its shrunken vision of humankind.

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It follows that a democracy of desire strengthens and encourages irreligion and thus undermines the only foundations upon which any democracy can rest — namely, those of objective, impartial, and universal justice.

We need men and women of all faiths who will recognize and emphasize these areas of agreement and possible co-operation, until what George Bernard Shaw once said becomes true: «Religion is that which binds men to one another and irreligion that which sunders.»

Radhakrishnan says, that secularism is based, not on irreligion or atheism, but on «the universality of spiritual values which may be attained by a variety of ways».

To unite all Religion against all irreligion, to make the Golden Rule the basis of this union; to present to the world... the substantial unity of many religions in the good deeds of the Religious Life; to provide for a World's Parliament of Religions, in which their common aims and common grounds of unity may be set forth, and the marvelous Religious progress of the Nineteenth century be reviewed... (The World's Religious Congress, General Programme (preliminary ed.; 1893), p. 19.)

The church knows this well enough, with its everlasting inner struggle of the acute religion of the few against the chronic religion of the many, indurated into an obstructiveness worse than that which irreligion opposes to the movings of the Spirit.