Alan Watts Quotes
Religion is always falling apart.
Watts, Alan. Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship. Pantheon Books, 1964.
The attacks on slavery were growing and the more slavery was attacked in Congress, the greater the talk of secession. It would be over a decade before secession actually took place.
Many people think that the French Revolution was spontaneous. Some events at the beginning were, but de Gouges and other political observers cold see that disaster was looming.
Franklin was a deist. He believed in God and the Creation but not the Bible which is often referred to as “revealed” truth. He did believe that classic Christianity was a positive force as some people were led to good works and a moral life by it.
Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer and speaker known for interpreting and popularising Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. He received a master's degree in theology from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and became an Episcopal priest in 1945. He left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.
