I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course that's a total joke and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations of creation and behavior and religion.
In nearly every religion I am aware of there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt if they were able to formulate a religion they would depict the Devil in human form.
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity it destroys religion it destroys states it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
We can live without religion and meditation but we cannot survive without human affection.
Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.
In my view relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships.
First and foremost I am a commercial writer and I hope to entertain people. But having said that I'm in love with the relationship between humans and dogs and the more I learned about what our military working dogs are doing I wanted to at least share with people what an important role these animals have in all our lives.
Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other God or the gods and with the human other the stranger.
All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly to find your real job and do it.
I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround culture the political matrix technology etc. and the internal human consciousness.
We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.
Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.
My personal belief is that you carry your own water in a relationship. If you see a girl and you think she's hot that's a very human reaction but you don't go and tell your spouse that you know? So in one way it's how you behave.
You know it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.
The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.
It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.
Sex is... perfectly natural. It's something that's pleasurable. It's enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don't we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual?
Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying with great rigor and discipline to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.
We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.