Atheists well understand that Christmas is the most visible display of religion in the world, and that any diminishment of it is a good thing to militant secularists.
There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.
In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
Sweden is an open, liberal, secular and democratic country. We strive towards achieving equality; we are forward-looking and refuse to be pulled back by social constructs such as religion.
Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed that God showed favor by bestowing wealth and other forms of success on what they called '...
Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.
The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.
In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.
As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.
Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.
The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.
I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that.
Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.
I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.
If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.
I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions.
