Politics and religion are technologies

Noah Feldman makes a searing case that both politics and religion -- whatever their differences -- are similar technologies, designed to efficiently connect and manage any group of people.

Famous Quotes about God

Famous quotes about God

1. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
   Henry Ford
2. God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.
   Reggie White
3. What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
   Eleanor Powell 
4. God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
   St. Augustine 
5. God: The most popular scapegoat for our sins.
   Mark Twain 
6. Clearly, God is a Democrat.
   Patrick Caddell 
7. People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.
   Pearl Bailey 
8. I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
   Mother Teresa
9. God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
   Voltaire
10. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world
    C.S. Lewis
11. I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.
    Albert Einstein
12. They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
    Emily Dickinson
13. Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
    Leo Buscaglia
14. God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
    Jean Paul Richter

The centrality of God in religion

God is central for all religions

Religion according to Oxford Dictionary is:

the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods

There are two major features characterized by all the main religions of the world. The first is the belief in God or gods, a supreme divinity that is

• omnipotent
• and omniscient

The second feature is that followers of all religions believe that the god they worship is the same god for them as well as for all the others.