On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous nationalities, ethnic groups and religious followers.
You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.
That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.
No terms, no conditions, no promises, no commitment, and no institution—but only another example of what happens when law and politics attempt to regulate a religious institution.
But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.
The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development.
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
Will the desire to maintain power and our level of comfort in our religious institutions equal the zeal of the Pharisees and Herodians who plotted to kill Jesus?
America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.
I'm not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw.
The religious doctrine of traditional Judaism entails the acceptance of the nationhood of the Jewish people and the everlasting sanctity of the Land of Israel for them.
From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.
Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.
The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.
down with hell and heaven and all the religious fuss infinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us
Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.
I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.
And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.
Religious politics is the bent of those who push "The Myth of the Christian Nation" or "Muslim Supremicism" everywhere! ~ © gfp '42™
