Topic
religion
social-cultural system
Also known as religious tradition, spirituality, spiritual tradition
On IJR
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Topic
social-cultural system
No public IJR answers mention religion yet. As people ask about it and share their answers, they'll appear here.
“Twenty times in the course of my late reading have I been on the point of breaking out,"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!!!" But in this exclamation I should have been as fanatical as Bryant or Cleverly. Without religion the world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite society, I mean Hell.”
“Sacred religion! Mother of Form and Fear!”
“Science embraces facts and debates opinion; religion embraces opinion and debates the facts.”
“Certainly religion must be granted to be one of the greatest inventions ever made on earth. It not only probably antedated all the rest... it was also more valuable to the Dawn Man than any or all of them. For it had the peculiar virtue of making his existence more endurable.”
“[E]xtreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.”
“No laws can be of avail except in so far as they are founded on religion.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.