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Posts tagged religion.
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
Eugene O´Neill (via mycolorbook)
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Belief In God Plummets Among Younger Generation ›
Is faith losing its grip on the young?
That would be one way to read a new report by the respected Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, which found that more than one-quarter of Americans age 18 to 29 have no religious preference or affiliation, and fewer than one in five attend services regularly.That makes them easily the least religious generation among Americans alive today, perhaps the least religious ever.
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…when we ask, what is the substantial cause of the material universe way back in the early history of the universe, we trace it back to the space particles which transform into the elements of this manifest universe. And then we can ask whether those space particles have an ultimate beginning. The answer is no. They are beginningless. Where other philosophical systems maintain that the original cause was God, Buddha suggested the alternative that there aren’t any ultimate causes. The world is beginningless. Then the question would be: Why is it beginningless? And the answer is, it is just nature. There is no reason. Matter is just matter.
Now we have a problem: What accounts for the evolution of the universe as we know it? What accounts for the loose particles in space forming into the universe that is apparent to us? Why did it go through orderly processes of change? Buddhists would say there is a condition which makes it possible, and we speak of that condition as the awareness of sentient beings.
The Dalai Lama (via ageofreason)
One who drinks deep the Dhamma
lives happily with a tranquil mind.
The wise one ever delights in the Dhamma
made known by the Noble One (the Buddha).
Dhammapada (via ageofreason)
Very fast
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Bertrand Russell - British mathematician and philosopher. Jailed for six months during WWI for writing an antiwar article. His irreligion and advocacy of sexual freedom got him barred from teaching in New York by the state Supreme Court in the early 1940s. Awarded the 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature as “the champion of humanity and freedom of thought.” (via helvetebrann)
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“How To Be Good Biblical Parents” (nakedpastor)
Sounds like a plan by an all loving parent to me.
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