TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.
I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation - I don't care what religion it is.
My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.
There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.
I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.
If I wouldn't offend my religion or God, why would I want to offend an audience because in effect those people are being watched over by the same person.
I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy.
The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion. This is absolute nonsense. If anything, it's the reverse.
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
The fact that President-elect Kennedy would be the first Catholic president did not sit well with many Americans. There was a fear that, as president, Kennedy's decisions would be based on his religion and dictated by the pope.
As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.
I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life.
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.
Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.
Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
