The Most Powerful Moral Influence Is Example.

A Religion Made Up Solely Of Heightened Religious Experiences Would Not Be A Religion At All. ...the Major Religious Traditions Address The Mysteries (with Or Without Entheogens), But They Have Other Business To Do: Widen Understanding, Give Meaning, Provide Solace, Promote Loving-kindness, And Connect Human Being To Human Being.

My Body Was Born Into The - Baptized In The Methodist Church, And It Will Be Buried In The Methodist Church. Meanwhile, I Have A Soul. And My Soul Cannot Be Confined To Any Human Institution.

The Most Powerful Moral Influence Is Example.

After His Great Awakening, The Buddha Continued To Meditate And To Devote Himself To Others; Otherwise His Vision Would Have Receded Into A Pleasant Memory.

Historically, Religion Has Given People Another World To Live In, A World More Adaptive To The Human Spirit. As A Student Of World Religions, I See Religion As The Winnower Of The Wisdom Of The Human Race. Of Course, Not Everything About These Religions Is Wise. Their Social Patterns, For Example - Master-slave, Caste, And Gender Relations - Have Been Adopted From The Mores Of Their Time. But In Their View Of The Nature Of Reality, There Is Nothing In Either Modernity Or Postmodernity That Rivals Them.