Religion v Spirituality

Religion in essence is a form of mythology, at its best addressing spirituality, morality/ethics and social responsibility.

Proselytising religion is a cancer. Religion should be private. Children would be better taught spirituality, morality/ethics and social responsibility, and no religion until they are young adults, say 16.

On Religion

Religion is giving with no strings attached

An old Kabbalist quoted by Rabbi Lionel Blue

on Doing the Right Thing

Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.

Martin Luther King

on Christianity

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.

Shelley

Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty of people who profess to be religious, even those who worship regularly, show no particular interest in the world beyond themselves.

John Danforth - priest, ambassador, senator (b. 1936)

Reflection on Christianity

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.

Shelley

On Pantheism

"Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an
insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to
discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with
the same care and imagination as a zebra. Apparently it does not occur to
nature whether or not a creature is within our range of vision, and the
suspicion arises that even the zebra was not designed for our benefit."

Rudolf Arnheim (psychologist and author 1904-2007)

Buddhist

A Buddhist goes up to a hot dog vendor:
"Make me one with everything"