[Assam] Sacrilege on Religion

Thu Mar 16 16:31:30 PST 2006

About Lincon's quote - it seems wrong. I saw the church in DC where he used to go regularl - as per a plaque put outside.

  Umesh

Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
        >And that religion wouldn't somehow be Buddhism? Would it? :):)

  *** Actually I did not have THAT religion in mind :-). But I guess it could be. Buddhism adherents rarely use it for political ends. The Sinhalese Buddhist/Tamil conflict is a exception and has a lot to do with the subcontinental-slants and cultural/ethnic rifts .

  At 3:56 PM -0600 3/16/06, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
  >*** Me too. Can't wait to see some of these being quoted in assamnet to show how a >particular religion has all or most of the better elements mentioned in these quotes :-).     And that religion wouldn't somehow be Buddhism? Would it? :):)     

  On 3/16/06, Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
  At 2:19 PM -0600 3/16/06, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
  I throughly enjoyed these. Great stuff for future use.

   *** Me too. Can't wait to see some of these being quoted in assamnet to show how a particular religion has all or most of the better elements mentioned in these quotes :-).  

    On 3/16/06, Dilip/Dil Deka <dilipdeka at yahoo.com> wrote:
  Here are some famous quotes on religion.
  Dilip
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   When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) , (attributed)
  I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
    Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
  I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
    Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
  It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
    D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
  The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
    Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
  Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.
    Flavius Josephus (37 AD - 100 AD) , Life
  The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
    George Burns (1896 - 1996)
  For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
    H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
  A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
    James Feibleman  
  Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
    Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
  It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
    Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
  Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
    Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC), De Rerum Natura
  The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
    Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888) , 'Literature and Dogma,' preface to 1883 edition, last words
  The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
    Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
  The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
    Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
  To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
    Sophy Burnham
  Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.
    Stella Terrill Mann
  With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
    Steven Weinberg (1933 - ) , quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
  Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
  A cult is a religion with no political power.
    Tom Wolfe (1931 - )
  Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child.
    Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 06-21-05

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