All -isms End Up In Schisms.

The New Age Movement Looks Like A Mixed Bag. I See Much In It That Seems Good: It's Optimistic; It's Enthusiastic; It Has The Capacity For Belief. On The Debit Side, I Think One Needs To Distinguish Between Belief And Credulity. How Deep Does New Age Go? Has It Come To Terms With Radical Evil? More, I Am Not Sure How Much Social Conscience There Is In New Age Thinking.

One Reason Education Undoes Belief Is Its Teaching Of Evolution; Darwin's Own Drift From Orthodoxy To Agnosticism Was Symptomatic. Martin Lings Is Probably Right In Saying That More Cases Of Loss Of Religious Faith Are To Be Traced To The Theory Of Evolution ... Than To Anything Else.

I Don't Have Any Fear Of Death. I Do, However, Have An Inordinate Fear Of Becoming Dependent On Other People. To Me, That's The Severest Test, Not Death.

I Don't Want To Justify Religion In Terms Of Its Benefits To Us. I Believe That, On Balance, It Does A Lot Of Bad Things, Too - A Tremendous Amount. But I Don't Think That The Final Justification Of Religion Is The Good It Does For People. I Think The Final Justification Is That It's True, And Truth Takes Priority Over Consequences. Religion Helps Us Deal With What Is Most Important To The Human Spirit: Values, Meaning, Purpose, And Quality.

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.