Believing certain things because an organized body of priests tells him to believe, believing because it is written in certain books, believing because his people like him to believe, the modern man knows to be impossible for him.
There are, of course, a number of people who seem to acquiesce in the so-called popular faith, but we also know for certain that they do not think. Their idea of belief may be better translated as "not - thinking - carelessness". …
… Is religion to justify itself by the discoveries of reason, through which every other science justifies itself?
Are the same methods of investigation, which we apply to sciences and knowledge outside, to be applied to the science of Religion?
In my opinion this must be so, and I am also of the opinion that the sooner it is done the better.
- Swami Vivekananda, Lecture in England
There are, of course, a number of people who seem to acquiesce in the so-called popular faith, but we also know for certain that they do not think. Their idea of belief may be better translated as "not - thinking - carelessness". …
… Is religion to justify itself by the discoveries of reason, through which every other science justifies itself?
Are the same methods of investigation, which we apply to sciences and knowledge outside, to be applied to the science of Religion?
In my opinion this must be so, and I am also of the opinion that the sooner it is done the better.
- Swami Vivekananda, Lecture in England
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