{"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":"Forget all the formal decency of tolerance, and simply love your fellow humans. And the Self within you shall attain the highest pedestal of greatness, way higher than all the book-learned preachers in the world.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","compassion","compassionate","humanity","inspirational","inspiring","kindness","love","love-and-kindness","love-thy-neighbor","love-thy-neighbour","motivational","preacher","religion","religious-extremism","religious-fundamentalism","sage","scriptures","service-to-mankind","service-to-others","tolerance","wisdom","wise-sayings","words-of-wisdom"],"id":45940,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Doctrines, no matter which path of human endeavor they come from, must serve the humans, not the humans serving the doctrines. “Love thy neighbor” - is a great doctrine, but more importantly, it is an unparalleled piece of magnificent human teaching – as such, whoever practices it, becomes a better human, a real human. On the other hand, there is another doctrine that says “God may purify the believers and destroy the disbelievers” – now would you, as a real conscientious human being, consider this one as a great beneficial doctrine or teaching for humanity? Far from being great, doctrines like this are the ones that compel the human society to forget its innate humanism.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","compassion","consciousness","doctrine","doctrine-of-virtue","doctrines","empathy","human-mind","human-nature","humanism","humanity","indoctrination","inspirational","kindness","love","love-and-kindness","love-thy-neighbor","love-thy-neighbour","philosophy","principles-of-humanism","religion","religious-extremism","religious-fundamentalism","scripture","truth","words-of-wisdom"],"id":56727,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["achievement","bad-woman","brainy","female","female-beauty","female-characters","female-empowerment","female-hero","female-liberation","female-protagonist","females","feminine","feminine-power","femininity","feminism","feminism-identity","feminismo","feminist","feminist","feminists","fundamentalism","girl","girl-power","girl","girls","good-woman","great-woman","great-women","humanism","humanity","humankind","inspirational","inspiring-women","leadership","leadership-development","man-and-woman","man-and-woman","mankind","neuropsychology","patriarchal","patriarchal-culture","patriarchal-paradigm","patriarchal-society","patriarchy","religious-fundamentalism","success","woman","woman","woman","woman-s-character","woman-s-strength","womanhood","women","women-and-men","women-empowerment","women","women-s-inspirational","women-s-rights","women-s-strength","womens-rights","words-of-wisdom"],"id":71197,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["bible","brainy","christianity","fundamentalism","fundamentalists","gita","hinduism","holy-war","infidelity","infidels","islam","quran","rational-thinking","reasoning","religious-extremism","religious-fundamentalism","religious-violence","scriptures"],"id":75948,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"If a God tends to reinforce the prejudices in a society instead of diminishing them from the society, then such God is worse than Cancer.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","fundamentalism","god","prejudice","prejudices","religious-fundamentalism","social-reform","superstitions","wise-sayings"],"id":88483,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"If one does not have the basic conscientious capacity to refute the primitive textual verses of the scriptures that demand one to kill or torture another being for holding a different belief system than one's own, then that entity is no being of the civilized human society, it is merely a pest from the stone-age.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","fundamentalism","fundamentalists","holy-war","infidelity","infidels","rational-thinking","reasoning","religious-extremism","religious-fundamentalism","religious-violence","scriptures"],"id":96343,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"We don't have the luxury to say that, there is no hope for reform in Islam, because by saying this, we would be disavowing the entire peace-loving Muslim population of the world. We cannot leave our Muslim sisters and brothers behind to be oppressed by their own priestly tyrants, while the rest of the world keeps progressing with an open mind. The entire civilized society of the world, must put their heart and soul to get Islam liberated from the shackles of fundamentalism. Conscience must triumph over orthodox barbarianism, otherwise there would be no hope for the progress and wellbeing of humanity as a truly wise species.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["allah","bismillah","brainy","fundamentalism","fundamentalist","harmony","harmony","humanism","humanist","humanitarian","humanitarian-activities","humanitarian-efforts","humanitarian-intervention","humanity","inspiring","islam","islamic","islamic","islamic-terrorism","islamism","islamophobia","love-and-compassion","love-and-kindness","muslim","muslimah","muslims","muslims-life","peace-makers","peace-on-earth","quran","religion","religious-extremism","religious-fundamentalism","religious-harmony","religious-tolerance","sage","service-to-mankind","spirituality","thinker"],"id":101167,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Mother Nature created God as a neurological anti-depressant sentiment, but Man tore that God apart into pieces and made citadels of differentiation out of them.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","differentiation","divine","divinity","doctrines","evolutionary-psychology","faith","fundamentalism","global-harmony","god","harmony-and-peace","human-mind","human-nature","humanity","inspirational","love-and-compassion","mother-nature","naturalism","neurology","neuropsychology","neuroscience","neurotheology","pearls-of-wisdom","philosophy","psychology-of-religion","religion","religious","religious-diversity","religious-extremism","religious-fundamentalism","religious-tolerance","seperatism","spirituality","theology","wisdom","words-of-wisdom"],"id":118702,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"In the ancient times, when ignorance was the default mode of thinking, Krishna may have proven to be a glorious figure to be adored and relied on in times of distress, but in the modern world of conscientious humans, no Krishna is higher than the Human Self.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","civilization","conscience","fundamentalism","hinduism","human-nature","humanity","krishna","krishna-consciousness","philosophy","religion","religious-extremism","religious-fundamentalism","words-of-wisdom"],"id":130474,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":46,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}