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It’s also reflective of a young person’s religion or faith in that it’s highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.
But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.
I’ve long been really intrigued with what is the… proper role of faith and religion in public life.
I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.
I’m not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn’t write them today because of my religion.
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
I’m fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I’m not committed to any specific one.