{"quotes":[{"text":"Harmony is not a luxury, it is an existential necessity of the species. And to achieve it, if a hundred Bibles have to be sacrificed, then be it. But for no Bible, Quran or Gita, can harmony be compromised.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["bible","brainy","gita","harmony","inspirational","inspiring","philosophy","quran","rational-thinking","religious-diversity","religious-harm","religious-harmony","religious-tolerance","religious-toleration","religious-violence","social-norms","social-progress","society","truth","words-of-wisdom"],"id":5288,"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":"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":"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":"I am the thread of unification that goes through humans of all religions, cultures and ideologies while reinforcing their innate sense of one humanity.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["global-harmony","harmony","humanism","humanist","humanist","humanitarian","humanitarian-efforts","humanitarian-intervention","humanitarianism","inspirational","inspirational","inspiring","love-and-kindness","motivational","pearls-of-wisdom","philosophy","religious-diversity","religious-harmony","religious-tolerance","religious-toleration","sage","sage-sayings","thinker","thinkers"],"id":15560,"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":"I am not an atheist. But the religion that I do advocate is not of the Bible, Vedas, Quran or any other scripture. The religion I speak of, is what Christ talked about, it is what Buddha talked about, it is the religion of plain everyday kindness.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","compassion","empathy","harmony","humanism","humanitarian","inspirational","kindness","love","love-and-kindness","love-thy-neighbor","peace","philosophy","religion","religious-tolerance","religious-toleration","thinkers"],"id":43362,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"A true religious person should not think that “my religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.” Other religions are also so many paths leading to the same domain of transcendental bliss. Likewise, no person should think “my perception of the reality is the only absolute reality, and all others’ are false”, because each human brain has its own unique way of perceiving the reality.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["faith","god","meditation","neuroscience","neurotheology","oneness","perception","reality","religious-diversity","religious-tolerance","science","spirituality","transcendence","transcendental-meditation","transcendentalism-god"],"id":50957,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"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":"Building bridges takes us further than building walls.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["bias","biased","biases","bigot","bigoted","bigotry","building-bridges","building-bridges-not-walls","building-bridges","discriminating","discrimination","discrimination","gay-rights","hate","hatred","immigration","lgbt","lgbt","lgbt-rights","lgbtq","lgbtqia","prejudice","prejudiced","prejudices","race","race-and-racism-in-america","race-relations","racism","racism-in-america","racism","racism","religion","religion-and-philosophy","religion-spirituality","religious-tolerance","tolerance","tolerance"],"id":61272,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":98,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}