Comparative Religion


A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78
The Bhagavad Gita
القرآن الكريم
The World's Religions
The Other Side of the Judeo-Christian History
The Golden Bough
The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
The Battle for God
The Power of Myth
Tao Te Ching
God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter
The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology
The Perennial Philosophy
Patterns in Comparative Religion
Abhijit Naskar
Bible is the downfall of Jesus, catholic church is the original sin. No other religion has systematically burnt mountains upon mountains of human literature, to hawk its scripture as the one true word of god. No religion is innocent, Islam has its skeletons, Hinduism has its skeletons, Judaism has a countryful, even Buddhism has a few, but compared to all the skeletons of all the organized religions, the Catholic church is built with human bones as framework, and corpses as edifice, and a huge ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

Anton Sammut
The word “religion” (Latin “religio”) is a very old term and, in fact, was already used in Roman times and was understood to portray a similar meaning by many other civilizations. For example, the Roman orator Cicero (106-43 BC) understood this term to mean “respect towards something of great importance”, somewhat similar to an obligation which man should reserve for gods. The Greek term “eusebeia” (reverence or fear of God) has a comparable meaning, whilst in the Arab and Persian world the same ...more
Anton Sammut, The Other Side of the Judeo-Christian History

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