Never underestimate the ridiculous things that have been done in the name of religious-semantic obscurity.
The quickest way to alter an altar is not with a hammer, or even religious deconstruction, but with a typo.
People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.
Religion and nationalism? I defecate on the altar of religious conviction, and wipe my arse on the flag of national pride.
A brick could be used in religious ceremonies. After all, it is slightly better than using live human sacrifices.
The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong.
I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.
I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance.
There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people.
I'm very wary of large groups of people getting together and trying to believe the same thing. It never seems to end well, whether it's political or religious or whatever.
I'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn't say I'm not religious.
There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.
What is the Obama Doctrine? It seems to be one of disengagement, to try to ignore the hot, religious, dry, poor countries from Algeria to Pakistan.
Cop-out excuses and catch-phrase dismissals can only work so long before the holes in the religious argument cannot be ignored any longer.
The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.
Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.
Mehmet was the first sultan, and one of the first Muslims anywhere, to defy religious tradition by allowing his portrait to be made.
I am a very spiritual person. Maybe not traditionally religious in terms of Sunday Mass every week, that sort of thing.
The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
