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
The World's Religions
القرآن الكريم
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 Hero with a Thousand Faces
The Perennial Philosophy
Abhijit Naskar
“ Medicine Doesn't Require Faith Test (Naskaristana 2504) More and more I've grown distant of the term "philosophy", as I'm nearing my final sleep it feels, philosophy is just a kid brother to theology. But my theology has no relation to scripture, my theology is just human acting at full voltage. Ibn Arabi, Adi Shankara, Meister Eckhert, it's all one. Mevlana, Naskar, Aquinas, all are one sentience. All paths are valid, only prejudice is invalid; no matter the river, we're all headed to the s ...more ”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“ One of the earliest attempts to portray the human embodiment of the divine was made by the ancient Hindus a few centuries before the Christian era. In the ancient Hindu scriptures, the sacred hymns called the Vedas, the god Indra wandered about in many forms, sometimes as a bull and sometimes as a ram, and the god Varuna is said to have come out of the point of an arrow and appeared as a bull. [...] The Sanskrit terms used to express the manifestation of God coming into this world evolved from r ...more ”
― Daniel E. Bassuk, Incarnation in Hinduism and Christianity: The Myth of the God-Man

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