Human Intelligence Is A Reflection Of The

A Nation Can Assume That The Addition Of The Words "under God" To Its Pledge Of Allegiance Gives Evidence That Its Citizens Actually Believe In God Whereas All It Really Proves Is That They Believe In "believing" In God

I Don't Want To Justify Religion In Terms Of Its Benefits To Us. I Believe That, On Balance, It Does A Lot Of Bad Things, Too - A Tremendous Amount. But I Don't Think That The Final Justification Of Religion Is The Good It Does For People. I Think The Final Justification Is That It's True, And Truth Takes Priority Over Consequences. Religion Helps Us Deal With What Is Most Important To The Human Spirit: Values, Meaning, Purpose, And Quality.

When Historians Look Back On Our Century, They May Remember It Most, Not For Space Travel Or The Release Of Nuclear Energy, But As The Time When The Peoples Of The World First Came To Take One Another Seriously.

I'm Not A Chauvinist. I'm A Universalist. I Think That God Imploded, Like A Spiritual Big Bang, To Launch The Eight Civilizations That Make Up Recorded History And The Religions In Those Civilizations.

Religion Teaches Us That Our Lives Here On Earth Are To Be Used For Transformation.