Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.
Violence and religion have often gone together, but it's not a perfect correlation, and it doesn't have to be a permanent connection, because religions themselves change.
I was born Jewish, and I consider that my religion. But I've studied all religions, and as you learn more, you really learn that everyone's praying to the same God.
I love religion and have contemplated going back to school to get a world religion degree.
Opinion about religion might be different, but religion should be one and that is the well being of humanity.
In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.
I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.
Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.
Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.
It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.
These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
The entire Jesus concept, that human sacrifice should be the substratum of a moral religion of love, strikes me as incongruous. God condemned us and Jesus saved us, and they are actually the same being? Christianity is the idea that you are so abhorr...
The question has often been asked; Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy? It does not matter what you call it. Buddhism remains what it is whatever label you may put on it. The label is immaterial. Even the label 'Buddhism' which we give to the teac...
