1. And if religion was rational, and basic truths were plain, what justification could there be for compulsion? 2. But there is a sense in which religion is no less essential to civilization than literature and the fine arts. 3. Here religion is the strongest feature of civilizations, at the heart of both their present and their past. 4. Is religion the only basis for not saluting the flag? 5. Religion can be part of the technique you use to get there in an age where technology is supreme. 6. Religion is the human enterprise by which a sacred cosmos is established. 7. Religion was important here, inculcating as it did the traditions of service and good works. |