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The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Religions Of The World Are The

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.
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The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation. they mock current assumptions and express the imaginative, unconventional, noncommercial view of the world in its simplest and purest form. they appeal to the imaginative, questioning, rebellious child within all of us, renew our instinctive energy, and act as a force for change. this is why such literature is worthy of our attention and will endure long after more conventional tales have been forgotten.
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An important advance in the life of a people is the transformation of the religion of fear into the moral religion. but one must avoid the prejudice that regards the religions of primitive peoples as pure fear religions and those of the civilized races as pure moral religions. all are mixed forms, though the moral element predominates in the higher levels of social life. common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of the idea of god.
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After long study and experience, i have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.
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There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. there will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.
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The way of presentation is different according to each religion. in theistic religions like buddhism, buddhist values are incorporated. in nontheistic religions, like some types of ancient indian thought, the law of karma applies. if you do something good, you get a good result. now, what we need is a way to educate nonbelievers. these nonbelievers may be critical of all religions, but they should be decent at heart.
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Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell.
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