{"quotes":[{"text":"All these stories of Janamsakhi were like an artistic instrument that was yielded more to spread Nanak’s spiritual sovereignty as a mystical prophet than as an effective teacher in flesh and blood. In the midst of ignorance and mystical craving, they provided a simple method to guide people, or rather allure them to a newly formed religious path by sermonizing through stories of mystical non-sense.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","guru-nanak","janamsakhi","mystical-powers","mystical-theology","mysticism","nanak","religious-extremism","religious-fundamentalism","science","sikh","sikhism","sikhs","truth"],"id":7989,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"It is more practical to make people transform their mindset about religion and religiousness and walk in the path of creed-less religious harmony, than to convert the entire religious population on earth into atheists.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["atheism","atheism-defined","atheism","atheists","brainy","free-thinking","fundamentalism","harmony","inspirational","love-and-kindness","orthodoxy","peace","philosophy","rational-thinking","religion","religious-extremism","religious-harmony","religious","religious-tolerance","religious-violence","thinkers","truth","words-of-wisdom"],"id":8048,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"My question to the atheist is, do you want an atheist world or a peaceful world? And to the believer, do you want a religious world or a peaceful world? Religious orientation doesn't define peace, but the answer here may define one's true nature.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["atheism","brainy","inspiration","inspirational","inspiring","peace-on-earth","peace","religion-and-philosophy","religious-extremism","religious-faith","truth","wisdom","wise-sayings","world-peace"],"id":10469,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"The Church has carried out some of the most inhuman and above all un-Christian acts of human history, yet, it is still gloriously hailed by the majority of human population as to be synonymous with Jesus Christ.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","christ","christianity","christianity","christianity-religion-atheism","church","church-leadership","compassion","fundamentalism","inspirational","inspiring","philosophy","religion","religious-extremism","religious-tolerance","religious-violence","truth","violence","wisdom","wise-sayings","words-of-wisdom"],"id":10540,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"It has always been science versus fundamentalism, not science versus religion.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["creationism","fundamentalism","inspirational","inspirational","inspiring","philosophy-of-religion","philosophy-of-science","religious-extremism","religious-violence","science","science-and-religion","science","science-vs-religion","truth","words-of-wisdom"],"id":11562,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Any thought sequence that minimizes anxiety would get reinforced over time. The sequence would be maintained during the person’s development and would be provoked in contexts where refutation of the belief might occur. So, any kind of refutation of a person’s religious beliefs makes the beliefs only stronger.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["belief","belief","belief-system","beliefs","brainy","neuroscience","neurotheology","religious-beliefs","religious-diversity","religious-extremism","religious-faith","religious-freedom","religious-tolerance","religious-violence","science-and-religion","truth"],"id":12046,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"The more fundamentalist a person, the more immoral and inhuman he is.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","fundamentalism","human-nature","inspirational","primitive-human-behavior","religion","religious-extremism"],"id":18096,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"When circumstances pour the minds of some young helpless individuals with hatred and rage towards the society, and when that pain, hatred, and rage become unbearable, they turn to the scriptures as the final resort, in a pursuit to find absolution, guided by the psychopathic, misogynistic, genocidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent, fundamentalist preachers.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["fundamentalism","inspiration","inspirational","inspiring","neuroscience","neurotheology","philosophy-of-religion","religious-extremism","religious-tolerance","religious-violence","science","science-and-religion","science-vs-religion"],"id":22783,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Without the Mind, there is no God. Without you, there is no God.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["advaita","belief","brainy","consciousness","consciousness-mind-brain","consciousness","faith","god","human-mind","inspirational","mind","nondual-philosophy","nonduality","religion","religious-extremism","science","scriptures","self-awareness","truth","words-of-wisdom"],"id":33066,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.","author":"Richard Dawkins","tags":["extremism","religion","religious-extremism"],"id":34589,"author_id":"Richard+Dawkins"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":130,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}