{"quotes":[{"text":"I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.","author":"Montesquieu","tags":["christendom","civil-war","kingdom-of-christ","religious-violence","violence","war"],"id":1702,"author_id":"Montesquieu"},{"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":"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":"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":"Never trust books on the question of whether or not to trust your rational thinking. Trust your rational thinking on the question of whether or not to trust the books.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["free-thinkers","free-thinking","free-thinking-abilities","free-thinking","life-philosophy","philosophy","philosophy-of-life","rational","rational-spirituality","rational-thought","rationality","religion","religious-beliefs","religious-extremism","religious-violence","scripture","wisdom","wisdom","wise"],"id":39734,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"An outspoken atheist who most lovingly talks and listens to people of all religions without any bigotry or prejudice is a hundred times more religious than all the theoretical preachers of all religions combined.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["agnostics","atheism","atheists","brainy-qutoes","compassion","harmony","humanism","inspirational","kindness","love-and-kindness","love-thy-neighbor","motivational","peace","religious-extremism","religious-violence","rleigion","rleigious-fundamentalism","thinkers","truth","words-of-wisdom"],"id":55053,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Christ did to the Jewish orthodoxy, what Buddha did to the Hindu orthodoxy.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["bible","bible-reading","brainy","buddha","buddhism","christ","church","church-leadership","compassion","fundamentalism","hindu","hinduism","holy-bible","inspirational","inspiring","love","love-thy-neighbor","new-testament","nirvana","old-testament","orthodoxy","philosophy","religion","religious-extremism","religious-faith","religious-tolerance","religious-violence","truth","violence","wisdom","wise-sayings","words-of-wisdom"],"id":65003,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":68,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}