Will Herberg Quotes

• Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.

  Will Herberg

  Believe, Struggle, Men

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• America seems to be at once the most religious and the most secular of all nations.

  Will Herberg

  Christian, Religious, America

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• Man is homo religiosus, by 'nature' religious: as much as he needs food to eat or air to breathe, he needs a faith for living.

  Will Herberg

  Religious, Men, Air

  Will Herberg (2012). “Protestant, Catholic, Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology”, p.350, Doubleday

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• Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization.

  Will Herberg

  Self, Worship, Idolatry

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