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
القرآن الكريم
The World's Religions
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 Perennial Philosophy
Patterns in Comparative Religion
Abhijit Naskar
Bible is the downfall of Jesus, catholic church is the original sin. No other religion has systematically burnt mountains upon mountains of human literature, to hawk its scripture as the one true word of god. No religion is innocent, Islam has its skeletons, Hinduism has its skeletons, Judaism has a countryful, even Buddhism has a few, but compared to all the skeletons of all the organized religions, the Catholic church is built with human bones as framework, and corpses as edifice, and a huge ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

Osho
Mohammedanism and Christianity are the two religions created by poor people. They don't have that elegance, that delicacy, that flavor, that comes from meditation. They don't have even the word "meditation" in their vocabulary. They are the religions of prayer. Prayer makes you a beggar; meditation makes you a master. Prayer is a degradation: you are humiliating yourself, falling on your knees, folding your hands towards the sky, knowing nothing of what you are doing. And what do you ask in you ...more
Osho, From the false to the truth: Answers to the seekers of the path

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