Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
People don't talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it's not an incredibly safe place to do it.
Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.
The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.
The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
The world's major religions: Same boss, different departments.
We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.
It is a neglected but essential fact that we cannot appreciate the relationship between religion and violence unless we grasp the nature and meaning of the two partners in this relationship. Yet our understandings both of religion and of violence are...
The fact the enemies of God must face is that modern civilization has conquered the world, but in doing so has lost its soul. And in losing its soul it will lose the very world it gained. Even our own so-called Liberal culture in these United States ...
Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God. The atheist does not say that there is no God, but he says 'I know not what you mean by God. I am without the idea of God. The word God to me is a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation. I ...
Our central problem is not sin and guilt, as it is within the monarchical model. For the Spirit model, our central problem is “estrangement,” whose specific meaning of “separated from that to which one belongs” is most appropriate. ... For th...
I once had a published written debate with a religious apologist who, after I had argued the standard line that the idea of a loving and merciful deity is inconsistent with the fact of natural evil, said this meant his god was not all-powerful, and t...
The argument that personal moral views should not be imposed on others when it comes to lawmaking is incoherent and misleading. It is incoherent because a great deal of law implicitly "imposes" a particular moral view on the wider society. It would b...
All of us, all human beings, are basically inclined or disposes toward what we perceive to be good. Whatever we do, we do because we think it will be of some benefit. At the same time, we all appreciate the kindness of others. We are all, by nature, ...
