Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and entertaining to consider that at least once in the world’s history those words might have been said with complete convi...
Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a...
Most of my Muslim friends are politically liberal in a lot of senses. They are far more open-minded than the Christian circles I grew up in, which are, you know, actually scarier. That said, too, I still identify with the teachings of Jesus. I don't ...
The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over...
I was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, and my neighbor was Michael Novak, a theologian and philosopher who has written about issues like the morality of capitalism and the Christian roots of free markets. It's possi...
I am not a religious person myself, but I did look for nature. I had spent my first sabbatical in New York City. Looked for something different for the second one. Europe and the U.S. didn't really feel enticing because I knew them too well. So Asia ...
My family is a praying family, a Christian family.
In history people dressed much better than we do today.
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
Religion is the incinerator of the soul -
Religion isn't the opium of the people, it's the hypocrisy.
Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
A religion without rules or God isn't sustainable.
People and their religions don't affect me.
Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.
If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease!
All religions are true but none are literal.
Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.
