One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
This is true knowledge: to seek the Self as the true end of wisdom always. To seek anything else is ignorance.
Science tells theology about the structure and history of the universe and its evolutionary nature. Religious insight can set the laws of nature in a more profound context of understanding, so that their deep order, rational beauty and anthropic fine-tuning become intelligible.
It is important we cultivate love and compassion to all the sentient beings which is the way to to bring peace to all.
