Donald M. MacKinnon (1913–1994) British philosopher
"Our Contemporary Christ," in Borderland Theology and Other Essays (1968), p. 82
Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 51
Donald M. MacKinnon (1913–1994) British philosopher
"Our Contemporary Christ," in Borderland Theology and Other Essays (1968), p. 82
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) Indian lawyer, statesman, and writer, first Prime Minister of India
Autobiography (1936; 1949; 1958)
Context: India is supposed to be a religious country above everything else, and Hindu and Muslim and Sikh and others take pride in their faiths and testify to their truth by breaking heads. The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere has filled me with horror, and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seems to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition and exploitation, and the preservation of vested interests. And yet I knew well that there was something else in it, something which supplied a deep inner craving of human beings. How else could it have been the tremendous power it has been and brought peace and comfort to innumerable tortured souls? Was that peace merely the shelter of blind belief and absence of questioning, the calm that comes from being safe in harbour, protected from the storms of the open sea, or was it something more? In some cases certainly it was something more.
But organized religion, whatever its past may have been, today is largely an empty form devoid of real content. Mr. G. K. Chesterton has compared it (not his own particular brand of religion, but other!) to a fossil which is the form of an animal or organism from which all its own organic substance has entirely disappeared, but has kept its shape, because it has been filled up by some totally different substance. And, even where something of value still remains, it is enveloped by other and harmful contents. That seems to have happened in our Eastern religions as well as in the Western.<!-- p. 241
Mohammed VI of Morocco (1963) King of Morocco
As quoted by The Times of Israel — Moroccan king calls on diaspora to reject Islamic extremism http://www.timesofisrael.com/moroccan-king-calls-on-diaspora-to-reject-islamic-extremism/ (August 21, 2016)
John Locke (1632–1704) English philosopher and physician
§ 106
The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695)
Sidney Morgenbesser (1921–2004) American philosopher
The Independent, The Independent, Professor Sidney Morgenbesser: Philosopher celebrated for his withering New York Jewish humour http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-sidney-morgenbesser-550224.html, 6 August 2004. Obituaries – Sidney Morgenbesser, 82, Kibitzing Philosopher, Dies http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/04/obituaries/04morgenbesser.html. The New York Times (September 8, 2004).
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2002, Compassionate Conservatism (April 2002)
Charles Foster Johnson (1953) American musician
July 11, 2009 http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/34163_BNP_Leader_Griffin-_Islam_is_a_Cancer_Requiring_Global_Chemotherapy/comments/
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) Founder and 1st Governor General of Pakistan
Address to the Constituent Assembly (1947)
Carly Fiorina (1954) American corporate executive and politician
The Tonight Show Featuring Jimmy Fallon http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/carly-fiorina-talks-trump-religion-rocks-fallon-tonight-show-n431346 (21 September 2015). <br class="br">2010s, 2015, The Tonight Show Featuring Jimmy Fallon (September 2015)