{"quotes":[{"text":"Today's 'religious freedom' policies should not be seen as a problem limited to LGBT people but as a co-optation of religion that affects us all.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["bias","biased","biases","bigot","bigotry","bigots","co-optation","co-opting","discrimination","discrimination","first-amendment","first-amendment-defense-act","freedom-of-religion","gay-rights","government","government","homophobia","homophobic","lgbt","lgbt","lgbt-rights","lgbtq","lgbtqia","politics","politics-of-the-united-states","politics","prejudice","religion","religious-freedom"],"id":1033,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"While these Christians (the majority in a recent poll) are particularly concerned that religious freedoms are being eroded in this country, “they also want Judeo-Christians to dominate the culture,.","author":"David Kinnaman","tags":["culture","religious-freedom"],"id":5243,"author_id":"David+Kinnaman"},{"text":"The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the “sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew.” I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being.","author":"David James Duncan","tags":["fundamentalists","mysticism","religion","religious-freedom","spirituality"],"id":9436,"author_id":"David+James+Duncan"},{"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":"Let anyone using those weasel words “freedom of worship” know, they have “freedom of worship” in China and it is meaningless and it is vile. “Freedom of worship” says you may do what you like in that building on Sunday mornings or whenever you like, but when you come out you will bow to the secular orthodoxy of the state. That is the antithesis of what the Founders meant in guaranteeing “freedom of religion.","author":"Eric Metaxas","tags":["discipleship","integrity","religious-freedom"],"id":25453,"author_id":"Eric+Metaxas"},{"text":"The highest creed is Universal Acceptance.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["inspirational","inspirational","religious-freedom","religious-tolerance","religious-toleration","truth","univeral-truth","wisdom","wise-words","words-of-wisdom"],"id":59393,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"In the non-dual state, God, soul and universe are essentially one absolute system which is all-pervading, uncreated, self-luminous and eternal.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["advaita","advaita-vedanta","god","meditation","mindfulness","nondual","nondual-philosophy","nondualism","nonduality","nonduality-yoga","philosophy-of-life","philosophy","religious-freedom","transcendentalism"],"id":66316,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Science is never rigid, it is flexible. It can bend towards any direction that ultimately tends to do good to humanity. Religion must learn the same. And the moment any religion learns that, it would become the most scientific religion in the world.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["philosophy","religious-faith","religious-freedom","religious-tolerance","science-and-religion","scientific-discovery","scientific-method","words-of-truth","words-of-wisdom"],"id":69952,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"A man woke up at midnight and wanted to smoke. Therefore he looked for some fire, for which he went to a neighbor’s house and knocked at the door. The neighbor opened the door and asked him what he wanted. The man said, I wish to smoke. Can you give me a little fire? The neighbor replied, O.M.G.! What the heck is wrong with you? You have taken so much trouble to come and wake us up at the middle of the night, while in your own hand you have a lantern! The God that human beings so keenly seek, lives within the human biology, yet they wander hitherto searching for it.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["divine-self","god","inspirational","life-lessons","neurotheology","philosophy-of-science","religious-freedom","religious","science-and-religion","self-awareness","truth","wisdom","words-of-wisdom"],"id":70048,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"To every Armageddonist, every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster, “May God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me.","author":"David James Duncan","tags":["beauty-in-nature","nature","religion","religious-freedom","spirituality"],"id":76622,"author_id":"David+James+Duncan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":57,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}