Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Religion should eliminate social divisions rather than enforce laws that separate people.
- In plain terms
- Religion should remove social divisions, not create laws that separate people.
- What can you take from it?
- Spirituality aims to unify, not to legislate social hierarchy.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Should religion dictate social laws?
- What divides people unnecessarily?
Another view
Some traditions argue social laws are needed for order.
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