Sentences with phrase «religion as an illusion»

This stance puts me in opposition to those humanists who regard religion as an illusion, who seek to negate the divine reality as the necessary precondition for affirming the humanist gospel of human freedom, and who interpret the history of religion as only an instrument of oppression and dehumanization.

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This is total illusion and mind control as all organized religion is.

Nor need we dismiss as empty illusion the hopes of men of other religions who have trusted in God, or the gods, to renew, after death, a relation of grace and communion with their servants.

He argues that people take to religion as a crutch, because they can't get through life without help» or, as he thinks, the illusion of help» and the Christian and Jew and Muslim smile benignly and admit they can't.

And this, we are now told, is the meaning of religion, which is not so much encoded truth as pure illusion.

If liberation theologians, in solidarity with the victims of modernity, have no illusions about modernity's quest for «pure reason,» we are just as disillusioned about the quest for «pure religion» in classical sacralisms.

Traditions of every kind, hoarded and manifested in gesture and language, in schools, libraries, museums, bodies of law and religion, philosophy and science — everything that accumulates, arranges itself, recurs and adds to itself, becoming the collective memory of the human race — all this we may see as no more than an outer garment, an epiphenomenon precariously superimposed upon all the other edifices of Nature (the only truly organic ones, as it may appear): but it is precisely this optical illusion which we have to overcome if our realism is to reach to the heart of the matter.

More people such as you should stand up and voice their opinion on the «illusion of religion».

The religionist is usually willing to accept the witness of the intuition as well as reason in his or her search for truth; and every religion proposes to deal with the authentic, to avoid illusion, the artificial and the superficial, to go beyond appearances to the real.

I am under no illusions of absolute one sidedness and have met some wonderful Christians in my time who are living not as the «religion» would have it, but based on their personal relationship with Christ.

The works explore personal emotion and identity with themes including persecution, self - abandonment and sex, and cultural illusions, such as religion, myth and fables.