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.
We are fools, not by our religious beliefs,however by what we are lead to believe by those who control what information we receive
People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways.
The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.
At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.
What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope... It is not a reflection of all religious people.
Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.
I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.
Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness.
As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, "the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals.
People say it is impossible to get out of stupidity; well, I was born religious and here I am an atheist.
I wonder either their God has turned old, sick or died, because even the religious people no more believe in shit.
Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.
Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--the rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars.
Some people, both scientists and religious people, deal with uncertainty by being certain. That is dangerous in the fundamentalists and it is dangerous in the fundamentalist scientists.
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.
Most philanthropists would still rather donate to elite schools, concert halls or religious groups than help the poor or sick.
No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.
Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic change. We accept it as something that came from Providence.
