If you aren't any religion, how will you know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center?
The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest.
God against man. Man against God. Man against nature. Nature against man. Nature against God. God against nature. Very funny religion!
Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.
[It] has been said that the difference between Greek and Israelite religion was that the Greeks worshiped the 'holiness of beauty' whereas the Jews worshiped 'the beauty of holiness.
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so,it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that gaurds the door,and this dragon is religion
It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true.
Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men.
Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions.
I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion.
I'm tolerant of all religions... I don't care if someone wants to go out there and worship the bark on a tree.
As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very little.
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
Rigid traditions capture souls prisons of spiritual thought man’s religion has captured a god grown too small and very weak.
I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.
In case of religion, if there is no scientific evidence of such a thing, you should not judge those who do not believe. And they should not judge you, reciprocally.
Religion became the evil of our society when it started to teach resentment and hate instead of unconditional love and wisdom.
The purpose of religion is to enhance love, compassion, kindness, and care. It teaches us forgiveness, humility, tolerance, patience, and to share.
Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.
Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of life in many areas, the main weapon in the struggle against the forces of evil.
Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.
