Like all religions it is, at the bottom, but an explanation of the world, a superior social and political code, intended to bring about the greatest possible sum of peace and happiness on earth.
Guillaume usually evinced all the tolerance of a savant, for whom religions are simply social phenomena.
Religions may disappear, but religious feelings will always create new ones, even with the help of science.
Religions may disappear, but religious feeling will create new ones even with the help of Science.
When man has reached the depths of life's misfortunes, he returns to the divine illusion, and the origin of all religions lies there.
A new religion was about to be founded, and persecutions at once began, for religions only spring up amidst vexations and rebellions.
The appearance of the religions of good-will and mutual sympathy merely marks the beginning of a new era, and we may expect that the future of mankind will surpass the present, as much as the present surpasses savagery.
Manual toil was at that time considered an occupation fitted only for slaves, for we ought never to forget that the dignity of labour is no human invention, nor is it part of the religions of nature.
The religions of Greece and of Rome are identical in principle, and even in their deities, with the paganism of India, as the investigations of comparative historians have abundantly shown.
I shouldn't be at all surprised, either, to learn that you think Indian and Chinese religions superior to ours?
Too, the three-eyed deity, a hideous figure, puzzled him, though he was by no means unversed in the symbolism of the many religions of the land.
It is said that secular education--and the general schools open to all in a community of mixed religions must be secular--is training the rising generation to be materialists and socialists.
No doubt we should find human nature everywhere essentially the same; these various laws, customs, and religions would have many points in common; and such points we designate as the general laws of human society.
A ‘creation’ in the sense of the various religions is equally incomprehensible to us.
This is the fundamental idea from which all religions have arisen: not animism, fetishism, totemism, or whatever the little tributaries may be called, which have poured for thousands of years into the main stream.
A similitude it is and must remain, like everything that we say of God; but it is a higher and more spiritual similitude than any that have been or can be applied to God in the various religions and philosophies of the world.
Some religions have done this, on the theory that an almighty God stands beyond good and evil.
I perfectly understand that the majority of religions had to assume a good and evil principle to guard themselves against the blasphemy of attributing all the suffering of the world to an all-merciful Creator.
What aided me most in the solution of these religious or theological difficulties, was a comparative study of the religions of mankind.
This presence is what all the higher religions seek to reveal.
I could have named still other of the world's higher religions which are characterised by the same great interest.
Of such a realm the lovers dream and the religions tell.
Hence the higherreligions generally undertake to know, as they say, the divine.
To understand whence the higher religions get their moving principle, you have only to survey our natural life as it is, in all its pathetic and needy fallibility.
Are there as many ways of salvation as there are religions that men follow?
The celibacy ordained by severalreligions originates from ideas of this kind.
In many religions fetichism plays an important part, so much so that fetiches such as amulets or relics produce ecstasy in the faithful.
Krafft-Ebing attributes the cruelty found in many religions to sadism (sexual lust excited by the sufferings of others).
For this reason, we will leave the so-called revealed morality to the priests of diverse religions who pretend to have received them directly from God, and will confine ourselves to the study of purely human morality.
Religions have established different duties toward God, and these duties or commandments are in part very inhuman.
And in fact there is no doubt that most of the ancient religions of Greece owed their origin to this race.
The religions introduced from Phrygia and Thrace, such as that of the Cretan Zeus and Dionysus or Bacchus, may be easily distinguished by their more enthusiastic character from the native Pelasgic worship.
In this respect all religions are only one religion.
Religions quarrel over many details; men dispute over many propositions; but where human heart and human voice speak a single word, there you have the mark of truth, there you have the sign of spiritual reality.
All the members of the Parliament, all the royal and municipal officers, and the principal inhabitants of the towns where the two religions existed were further bound over on oath "to maintenance of the edict.
Especially is this religious exclusiveness unpopular in Japan, because there the nativereligions are very tolerant of one another.
The old religions of Japan strongly oppose the march of Christianity.
They hold that a belief in the native religions is necessary to preserve their darling patriotic spirit, and that the adoption of any foreign religion would gradually destroy all patriotism and loyalty.
The religions of contemporary Japan are four--Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Tenrikyo.
Any statement of the religions of contemporary Japan would be incomplete without notice of Christianity, but that will be reserved for another portion of this book.
While acknowledging that other religions contain grains of truth, we must affirm that, as religious systems, they are false.
The native religionshave very much hindered the evangelization of Japan.
Government recognition has been already gained, and it is gradually making a place for itself among {138} the religions of Japan.
The Apostle, so far as we can make out, judged the religions of heathenism with great severity.
Catholics and Protestants met together in friendly converse, and the voting went anyhow, both religions on both sides, according to each man's opinion of the business.
English supporters of Mr. Gladstone affect to ridicule the fears of armed and organised conflict between the rival races and religions of Ireland.
At this day it forms one of the three great religions of the world, and is more numerously followed than either Christianity or Islam.
The best and most authoritative discussion of the religions and mythological ideas of the Eskimo is to be found in the article of Dr Franz Boas on "The Folk-Lore of the Eskimo" (Journ.
The two systems co-existed as popular religions during more than a thousand years (250 B.
But there is a marked tendency both on the part of the sects and of the distinct religionsto lapse into the parent religion from which they sprang.
Hsuan Tsang also travelled to India from China by the Central Asia route, and has left a fuller record of the state of the two religions in the 7th century.
While some religions are much better than others, every man gets as {56} good a religion and as much of it as he has capacity for.
From the Ten Commandments on, all religions have been the best efforts of their founders and supporters to put man in accord with his environment.
The old religionspretended to give safety by bargain of sacrifice, by penance, and payment, but the religion of Jesus Christ taught that salvation and safety were the free gift of God.
When religions were national, or rather tribal, conversions were tribal too.
The national State Churches are the historical continuations of the tribal religions and priesthoods of the Northern tribes.
Avowed scepticism is likely to be disinterested and therefore to be moral; it is among the unavowed sceptics and conformists to political religions that the consequences of the change may be expected to appear.
One thing I will remark--that the Japanese possess tworeligions which, whatever their effects and no matter to what extent superstition may have been engrafted on them, have always held up a high moral standard.
So far as the Japan of to-day is concerned these two religions may be regarded as moribund, although their temples are still thronged by the lower classes of the people.
In the chapter which I have devoted to the religions of the Japanese people, I have remarked that religion appears to be losing its influence upon the educated classes of the country, who are quickly developing into agnostics.
Regarding the influence of the Buddhist and Shinto religions during the many centuries they have existed in the country on the lives of the people, I propose to make a few remarks.
These two religions have, in my opinion, placed the ethical conceptions of the Japanese people on a high plane.
They contain thereligions and philosophy of China in a dogmatic form.
All the religions on earth, with the exception of Christianity, bear witness to this rule.
If the law of the growth of religions is a very gradual one, that of our moral ideas is far more so.
All religions in the world are founded upon sacred hooks which contain the divine will, and whose truth is proved by miracles.
Upon this is founded all the religions in tbe world; it is to this marvellous invention that the priests of tbe whole earth are indebted for their authority, their riches, and their existence.
He being now by the Relator brought acquainted with the Scrivener, Drugster, and the rest of his Companions; they enter into discourse about the several Factious Religions practised in England.
Their nationalities were different, their religions antagonistic, their temperaments divergent but they found out that they shared the same grudges and detested the same castes.
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