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.
When I work in the theater, you know you'll get this almost devotional, religious experience where you're breaking bread with everyone every day.
If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.
Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
For many people who were never religious or who leave the religion of their childhood behind, it's the experience of having children of your own that brings an urgency to the question of what you believe.
Ultimately, jokes are this really special thing that we can all share. It's exciting to have basically a thousand people in a room together that can laugh at the same time, but I think of it almost as, like, a religious experience.
I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.
Most cultures traditionally link food and spirituality directly with periodic restrictions and celebrations punctuating the year. Abstinence from particular foods or full-on fasting is part of many religious traditions and holidays.
