I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.
Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.
It is noteworthy that at a time when every religious sanction of authority has vanished, we live in a very authoritarian epoch.
The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
You can easily see why the experience of Jews would be helpful if you're looking to get action on religious persecution.
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.
The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience.
It is a religious duty for those who cook to learn how to prepare food in different ways, hygienically, for the table, so that it may be eaten with enjoyment.
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.
People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!
After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.
My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words.
We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.
One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her.
Oddly enough, I'm not religious but I'm also very fond of St Peter's in Rome. When I'm there, I always know there's a good meal not far away.
So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.
I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.
