Post date: Feb 18, 2021 2:33:37 AM
In the United States the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own... Everybody there adopts great numbers of theories, on philosophy, morals, and politics, without inquiry, upon public trust; and if we look to it very narrowly, it will be perceived that religion herself holds her sway there, much less as a doctrine of revelation than as a commonly received opinion... The fact that the political laws of the Americans are such that the majority rules the community with sovereign sway, materially increases the power which that majority naturally exercises over the mind...
How easily man becomes a tool of his own belief systems, his own fanaticism, committed to some kind of dogma which has no reality... No temple, no mosque, no church, holds real truth... They are symbols perhaps but symbols are not the actual truth... In worshipping a symbol you will lose the real, the truth... But unfortunately the symbol has been given far greater importance than real truth... One worships the symbol more... All religions are based on some conclusions and beliefs, and all beliefs are divisive, whether political beliefs or religious... Where there is division there will be conflict...