The Deeper Question... Is Not Whether Ancient Religious Forms Can Reform... But Whether New Forms Of Nature-related Spirituality Might Emerge.
More Even Than Southern Presbyterians And Southern Methodists, The Baptists Provided The Great Mass Of Confederate Enlisted Men.
Dogma? Faith? These Are The Right And Left Pillars Of Every Soul-crushing Theology. Theosophists Have No Dogmas, Exact No Blind Faith.
Little Do The Devout Worshippers Of The Vatican Suspect, When They Lift Up Their Eyes In Mute Adoration Upon The Head Of Their God On Earth, The Pope, That What They Admire, Is After All, But The Caricatured Head-dress, The Amazon-like Helmet Of Pallas Athene, The Heathen Goddess Minerva! In Fact, There Is Scarcely A Rite Or Ceremony Of The Christian Church That Does Not Descend From Occultism.
Dogmas Are The Toys That Amuse And Can Satisfy But Unreasoning Children. They Are The Offspring Of Human Speculation And Prejudiced Fancy.
You Smile With Pomp And Rigor, You Talk Of Benevolence And Virtue; I Act With Benevolence And Virtue And Get Murdered Time After Time.
I Don't Like It, To Be Honest, When Politicians Make A Big Thing Of Their Religious Beliefs, So I Don't Make A Big Thing Of It.
The Mixing Of Government And Religion Can Be A Threat To Free Government, Even If No One Is Forced To Participate.... When The Government Puts Its Imprimatur On A Particular Religion, It Conveys A Message Of Exclusion To All Those Who Do Not Adhere To The Favored Beliefs. A Government Cannot Be Premised On The Belief That All Persons Are Created Equal When It Asserts That God Prefers Some.
