“Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.”
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921)
1920s
“A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.”
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ஜாதி மதங்களைப் பாரோம் -
உயர் ஜன்மம்இத் தேசத்தில் எய்தின ராயின்
வேதிய ராயினும் ஒன்றே -
அன்றி வேறு குலத்தின ராயினும் ஒன்றே
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“All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.”
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Source: Life Itself : A Memoir (2011), Ch. 55 : Go Gently
Context: Raised as a Roman Catholic, I internalized the social values of that faith and still hold most of them, even though its theology no longer persuades me. I have no quarrel with what anyone else subscribes to; everyone deals with these things in his own way, and I have no truths to impart. All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it. I know a priest whose eyes twinkle when he says, “You go about God’s work in your way, and I’ll go about it in His.”