One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life and its improvement from one generation to another.

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.

Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time I felt like I had learned another language mastered a new culture adopted a new religion.

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

Nevertheless there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.

Religion oh just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

One person's religion is another person's cult.

Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.