Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
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There are many reasons for kindness, and religion is just one of them.
I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.
I often write about nonreligious people, and I try to find situations where their sense of humanity is restored or discovered. I think you can be a good person in many ways. And I think you often have to be careful that prayer can seem superficial, because it's a very complicated thing to love your neighbor as yourself.
Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.
The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.
Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
You don't need a religious background to strive for something good, for genuine compassion and love for others.
What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?
We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.
There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.