It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.
I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in that respect.
When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it; it was a very spiritual time for me.
Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.
I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.
I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.
Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.
The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.
Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.
Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.
The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.
Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.
Spirituality in Washington can be more of a - I don't want to say it - but, a networking opportunity. Religion is often used opportunistically in the political conversation.
The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it, damage science, and also weaken the fight against fundamentalism.
With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'
There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.
If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other people's religion, and we have a long tradition of that.
I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
