Rajneesh (1931–1990) Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement
Source: Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic (2000), p. 10
“The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.”
Last update June 3, 2021. History
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a relig…" by Gore Vidal?
Gore Vidal163
American writer 1925–2012Related quotes
Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
Reason Rally, National Mall, Washington, DC,
“Religion is the good you do in the bad times.”
Morris West (1916–1999) Australian writer
Gil Langton's late mother, cited twice in Ch. 17, pp. 298 and 300
The Ringmaster (1991)
Montesquieu (1689–1755) French social commentator and political thinker
No. 35. (Usbek writing to Gemchid)
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721)
Steven Weinberg (1933) American theoretical physicist
Address at the Conference on Cosmic Design, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. (April 1999) <br class="br">This comment is modified in a later article derived from these talks:<br>:Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master underwent a religious conversion that allowed him to justify slavery as the punishment of the children of Ham. Mark Twain described his mother as a genuinely good person, whose soft heart pitied even Satan, but who had no doubt about the legitimacy of slavery, because in years of living in antebellum Missouri she had never heard any sermon opposing slavery, but only countless sermons preaching that slavery was God's will. With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil — that takes religion.<br>:* "A Designer Universe?" at PhysLink.com http://www.physlink.com/Education/essay_weinberg.cfm