{"quotes":[{"text":"Islamophobia defines whether a person is really a thinking and sentient sapiens or an ignorant caveman.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["consciousness","fear","fundamentalism","human-behavior","human-mind","human-nature","inspirational","inspiring","islam","islamophobia","jihad","motivational","muslims","philosophy","phobia","primitive-human-behavior","quran","religious-terrorism","terrorism","truth"],"id":3452,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"It is a neglected but essential fact that we cannot appreciate the relationship between religion and violence unless we grasp the nature and meaning of the two partners in this relationship. Yet our understandings both of religion and of violence are inadequate. Further, we usually consider too few offspring of their troubled marriage: when we think of “religious violence,” we tend to think only of holy war and (especially since September 11) religious terrorism. However, those are not the only types of religious violence.","author":"Jack David Eller","tags":["crusades","holy-war","intolerance","jihad","religious-terrorism","religious-violence","september-11","terrorism","violence"],"id":74995,"author_id":"Jack+David+Eller"},{"text":"All the terrorism in the world that fester in the name of religion, are in fact not religious in nature, rather they are socio-political. Their roots are not religion, but socio-political condition. Religion is only used as a divine tool of authoritative justification in the search of absolution.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","human-nature","inspirational","islam","jihad","motivational","neuropsychology","neuroscience","neurotheology","politics","religion","religious-extremism","religious-terrorism","science-and-religion","social-psychology","wisdom"],"id":113641,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Religious literature from all around the world have an abundance of philosophical teachings as well, which in fact, prove quite helpful to humanity. But a rational human being must examine every single word from the scriptures before accepting it. Otherwise, it would only lead to religious bulimia, which in turn would bring chaos down on earth.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","fundamentalism","humanity","inspirational","inspiring","inspiring","philosophy","religious-beliefs","religious-extremism","religious-terrorism","religious-violence","science","science-and-religion","scriptures"],"id":132023,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Terrorism has nothing to do with religion, Islam or otherwise. Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","fundamentalism","humanism","humanity","inspirational","islam","islamic","islamic-terrorism","islamism","islamophobia","jihad","jihai","muslim","muslim-brotherhood","muslim-woman","muslim-women","muslims","muslims-life","peace-loving","religious-extremism","religious-fundamentalism","religious-harmony","religious-terrorism","religious-tolerance","religious-toleration","religious-violence","thinkers","words-of-wisdom"],"id":174148,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"A person may hold his own beliefs and creeds to be dearest, and nourish them with all his might, but the moment he starts preaching the exclusive greatness and dominance over all other systems of beliefs and creeds, the world begins to plunge into a death trap.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["belief","brainy","faith","fundamentalism","harmony","inspirational","inspiring","neuropsychology","neuroscience","neurotheology","peace","philosophy","religion","religious-extremism","religious-terrorism","religious-tolerance","science","spirituality","truth"],"id":186737,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"There has been more bloodshed in the name of God than for any other cause. And it is all because people never attempt to reach the fountain-head. They are content only to comply with the customs of their forefathers and instructions on some books, and want others to do the same. But, to explain God after merely reading the scriptures is like explaining the city of New York after seeing it only in a map.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","buddha","buddhahood","christ","christianity","consciousness-mind-brain","consciousness","divine-self","fundamentalism","harmony","hinduism","islam","krishna","meditation","mindfulness","mindfulness","moses","muhammad","muhammad-pbuh","neurotheology","nirvana","nondual-philosophy","nondualism","nonduality","peace","pearls-of-wisdom","philosophy","philosophy","religious-extremism","religious-faith","religious-terrorism","religious-violence","self-realization","terrorism","transcendentalism"],"id":254663,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Due to the monstrous activity of a handful of extremists, the majority of the human society has been conditioned to believe that the term 'musalman' is somehow synonymous with terrorism. But the reality is, the term 'musalman' refers to someone with 'musallam iman,' that means, a pure conscience. Thus any individual whose conscience is pure and clear, is a musalman or muslim, regardless of socio-religious background. Likewise, any human being who loves his or her neighbor is a Christian. Hence, scriptures can't define your religion, only your actions with other people do.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["christian","christian-life","christian","christianity","conscience","conscience","conscience-reasoning","fundamentalism","inspirational","islam","islamic","islamic-terrorism","islamophobia","jesus-christ","love-thy-neighbor","motivational","muslim","muslims","pearls-of-wisdom","philosophy-of-religion","religious-freedom","religious-philosophy","religious-terrorism","religious-toleration","wise","wise-words"],"id":295604,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Why should a religion claim that it is not bound to abide by the standpoint of reason! If one does not take the standard of reason, there cannot be any true judgment, even in the case of religion.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["belief","brainy","conscience","faith","fundamentalism","harmony","inspirational","inspiring","neuropsychology","neuroscience","neurotheology","peace","philosophy","rationality","religion","religious-extremism","religious-terrorism","religious-tolerance","science","spirituality","truth"],"id":297537,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","fundamentalism","humanism","humanity","inspirational","islam","islamic","islamic-terrorism","islamism","islamophobia","jihad","jihai","muslim","muslim-brotherhood","muslim-woman","muslim-women","muslims","muslims-life","peace-loving","philosophy","religious-extremism","religious-fundamentalism","religious-harmony","religious-terrorism","religious-tolerance","religious-toleration","religious-violence","terrorism","terrorism","thinkers","truth","wise-sayings","words-of-wisdom"],"id":300483,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}