“Widespread criticisms of jihad in Islam and the so-called sword verses in the Quran have unearthed for fair-minded Christians difficult questions about Christianity's own traditions of holy war and 'texts of terror.' Like Hinduism's Mahabharata epic, the Bible devotes entire… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
“On the ethics of war the Quran and the New Testament are worlds apart. Whereas Jesus tells us to turn the other cheek, the Quran tells us, 'Whoso commits aggression against you, do you commit aggression against him' (2:194). The… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or Buddhism's Four… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
“One of history's most dangerous games begins with dividing the world into the good guys and the bad guys and ends with using any… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting. — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
“If religion is about the sacred as opposed to the profane, the spirit as opposed to matter, the Creator as opposed to the created,… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
“Like all religious people, Christians repress, remember, and retell their core stories selectively. They emphasize this episode at the expense of that episode, in… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God, and even… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe and the United States in the 1960s, it has been fashionable to… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
“True, (Jefferson's) rational religion ran in rivulets outside the American mainstream, but heterodoxy is faith of a different form and, like orthodoxy, should be… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
“Widespread criticisms of jihad in Islam and the so-called sword verses in the Quran have unearthed for fair-minded Christians difficult questions about Christianity's own… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
“On the ethics of war the Quran and the New Testament are worlds apart. Whereas Jesus tells us to turn the other cheek, the… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
Pretending that the world’s religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
“Spirituality, in short, is religion stripped down to its experiential dimension. More than do-it-yourself religion, spirituality is do-without-religion, a form of faith that denies… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
