“No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Acceptance does not mean accepting those who disregard humans on the basis of race, religion and sexual orientation.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We ignore the similarities between the religious extremism and ethno-nationalism at our peril. — Deeyah Khan Copy Share Image
Religiosity is suffocating in Pakistan. It invariably stokes the fire in driving society to religious extremism. — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
“Seeking sacredness through scripture literalism is like sunbathing in the microwave, it only burns your skin, and cooks your brain.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Any theology that starts with ethnic narcissism, by default becomes the lowest form of smut on earth.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Holiness in the purest form is independent of all textual doctrines, all churches and all institutions.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“When ethnic cleansing feels enlightened, Sinai becomes septic, Bethlehem becomes Bedlam.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I won't fit inside insect colonies with compost for brain and bloodlust for divinity.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Authoritarianism has no place in religion. If you want to have true religion in your heart, then burn the scriptures and go… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“People often ask me, what my religion is. I tell them, I am a Christian to the Christian, a Jew to the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“People fight over religion, because they don't understand religion. They think reading a few Bibles, Qurans and Vedas makes them religious. Books… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The world needs the kind of religion that sets humanity free, not the kind that binds it with textual fanaticism. The world… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“What an irony that modern man, engaged as he is in the pursuit of knowledge, allows himself to be stymied by the… — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
“Religion is not delusion, for most part it's therapeutic, but the notion that you're doomed if you don't pick a particular religion,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Discriminations suit animals, not humans. And yet, the unfortunate reality is, it is the humans that discriminate each other on the grounds… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The very first step in the path of progress out from the death-trap created by organized religions, is the recognition of the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“Isn't it time we asked ourselves, are we willing to accept any behavior codified within religious or cultural practice? Is there no… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Don't assume you understand Naskar (Sonnet 2972) Naskar Science is Naskar Theology is Naskar Poetry is Naskar Philosophy - and do not… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“If you think of your own mother to be the only true mother in the world and thereby start belittling people from… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The no-booze rule is one of several shams perpetuated by certain religious groups, presumably to keep their flocks in line. After all,… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
The same failure of liberalism is evident in Western Europe, where the dogma of multiculturalism has left a secular Europe very slow… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The Pilgrims had come to America not to conquer a continent but to re-create their modest communities in Scrooby and in Leiden.… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“WHY PARADIGMS MATTER Ideas drive results. People's beliefs drive their actions. Actions that stem from a simple, complete and accurate paradigm result… — Patricia E. West Copy Share Image
“Killing a bunch of Jihadis may be morally justified, to save humanity from their wrath, but it won't terminate Jihad for long.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“We don't have the luxury to say that, there is no hope for reform in Islam, because by saying this, we would… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I went to interview some of these early Jewish colonial zealots—written off in those days as mere 'fringe' elements—and found that they… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Slavery is bad, but even worse is blind discipleship to hallucinations.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“In the unification of two minds, orientation of sexuality is irrelevant.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
