{"quotes":[{"text":"No-one can own our Lord Buddha. That would be a foolish claim, but the roads that lead to him, the Way... That is a different matter. They are all filled with toll-gates, like the roads of Japan, and the monks collect the fees.","author":"Erik Christian Haugaard","tags":["buddha","relativism","sectarianism","way"],"id":1920,"author_id":"Erik+Christian+Haugaard"},{"text":"Sectarian thinking is contagious and rapidly spread.","author":"Moutasem Algharati","tags":["contagious","doctrine","intolerance","prejudicism","sectarian","sectarianism","thinking","thinking-with-a-great-mind"],"id":10181,"author_id":"Moutasem+Algharati"},{"text":"God is merciful cant we all be on the right track of faith but just using different roads?","author":"Ali Al-Ahmed","tags":["faith","god","religion","sectarianism"],"id":49303,"author_id":"Ali+Al-Ahmed"},{"text":"Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["acceptance","blasphemy","brainy","compassion","humanism","humanitarian","inspiring","motivational","philosophy-of-religion","religion","sectarianism","truth"],"id":52207,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Now is the time that we make conscientious efforts towards becoming a real wise species, free from all sorts of bigotry, mysticism and sectarianism.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["bigotry","brainy","conscience","conscientious","humanity","humankind","ignorance","intellect","mysticism","philosophy","progress","sectarianism","wisdom","wise","wise-sayings"],"id":100123,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Thatcher decade, and shows scant sign of recovering a critical faculty—or indeed any faculty whatever, unless it is one of induced enthusiasm for a plausible consensus President. (We shall see whether it counts as progress for the same parrots to learn a new word.) And my own cohort, the left, shared in the general dispiriting move towards apolitical, atonal postmodernism. Regarding something magnificent, like the long-overdue and still endangered South African revolution (a jagged fit in the supposedly smooth pattern of axiomatic progress), one could see that Ariadne’s thread had a robust reddish tinge, and that potential citizens had not all deconstructed themselves into Xhosa, Zulu, Cape Coloured or ‘Eurocentric’; had in other words resisted the sectarian lesson that the masters of apartheid tried to teach them. Elsewhere, though, it seemed all at once as if competitive solipsism was the signifier of the ‘radical’; a stress on the salience not even of the individual, but of the trait, and from that atomization into the lump of the category. Surely one thing to be learned from the lapsed totalitarian system was the unwholesome relationship between the cult of the masses and the adoration of the supreme personality. Yet introspective voyaging seemed to coexist with dull group-think wherever one peered about among the formerly ‘committ.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["apartheid","apoliticism","argument","atheism","berlin","bought-priesthood","cape-coloureds","cold-war","communism","conviction","critical-thinking","enlightenment","euphemism","eurocentricism","faith","film","george-hw-bush","george-orwell","german-people","germany","groupthink","hedonism","humanism","individualism","irony","journalism","left-wing-politics","lies","literary-criticism","literature","los-angeles","margaret-thatcher","monotheism","munich","orthodoxy","personality-politics","politics","polytheism","populism","postmodernism","potus","progress","radical-politics","religion","right-wing-politics","ronald-reagan","russia","science","sectarianism","self-love","self-pity","socialism","solipsism","south-africa","soviet-union","thomas-mann","totalitarianism","tribalism","truth","united-states","xhosa-people","zulu-people"],"id":151951,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"Whilst on the subject of the spread of Buddhism in the West, I want to say that I have noticed some tendency towards sectarianism amongst new practitioners. This is absolutely wrong. Religion should never become a source of conflict, a further factor of division within the human community.","author":"Dalai Lama XIV","tags":["buddhism","religion","sectarianism"],"id":162864,"author_id":"Dalai+Lama+XIV"},{"text":"He himself felt defeated because he was fighting against something he did not hate, because he did not understand the fratricidal hatred between the sons of Araby and Israel, and because he loved and knew and appreciated and wanted to save the merits of their cultures, although not the cruelty of their powers; he knew and loved the fountains and the gardens and the patios and high towers of al-Andalus, the nature that has been made more beautiful by man for man's pleasure, not for his mortification.","author":"Carlos Fuentes","tags":["hatred","racism","sectarianism","tribalism","war"],"id":211100,"author_id":"Carlos+Fuentes"},{"text":"See yourself in a mirror, you are a human first than anything else.","author":"imahmedyounis","tags":["inspirational","motivational-inspirational","sectarianism"],"id":227654,"author_id":"imahmedyounis"},{"text":"The question has often been asked; Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy? It does not matter what you call it. Buddhism remains what it is whatever label you may put on it. The label is immaterial. Even the label 'Buddhism' which we give to the teachings of the Buddha is of little importance. The name one gives is inessential.... In the same way Truth needs no label: it is neither Buddhist, Christian, Hindu nor Moslem. It is not the monopoly of anybody. Sectarian labels are a hindrance to the independent understanding of Truth, and they produce harmful prejudices in men's minds.","author":"Walpola Rahula","tags":["buddhism","labels","names","philosophy","prejudice","prejudices","religion","sectarianism","tolerance","truth"],"id":351041,"author_id":"Walpola+Rahula"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}