James K. Feibleman Quotes

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition

Religion is a mixed blessing.

I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views.

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

Religion is an irrational construct.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

Religon is misunderstood mythology

Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

Judaism is my life. Everything I do is through the lens of Torah.

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.

Basic religion is the reason we have morals.

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

I don't think you need religion.

I think that there's a strain in journalism that believes that anyone who surrenders him- or herself to faith and to belief necessarily checks reason and rationality at the door.

Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.