You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.
To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.
Oddly enough, George Pal always began and ended something with The Bible. All his pictures had a religious undertone. God was always there, protecting us.
God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.
From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.
A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
It's possible to get through life without a religious structure, but I don't think that's a very fruitful way to live.
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
'Caddyshack' touched people; so did 'Tron.' 'Caddyshack' is a lifestyle, and 'Tron' is more religious, spiritual, but both are very emotional responses.
Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.
If life is my way and nirvana is my destination, then which path should I take, religious or spiritual?
Are you saying that the Rebel Alliance were religious terrorists and Yoda was a benefit cheat?
I always try to share with others the idea that in order to become compassionate it is not necessary to become religious.
Investments are a real partnership, with an expected return; donations are a gesture made as a result of ethical, religious, or political passions.
