An important distinction needs to be made in politics between allowing your values to guide you and keeping religion and government separate. Liberals are rightly concerned about government-established and government-supported religion, especially in...
Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions
Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas.
I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
America's commitment to religious freedom and tolerance should not be conditional.
Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.
The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.
I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.
Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.
More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.
We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.
Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
Listening to the debates about public schools on the Christian Right, one hears plenty of opposing opinions and a great deal of confusion. Some want to change the schools, others want to leave them. But the smart money seems to know what it is doing....
The world is not composed of religious and non-religious people. It is composed rather of religious people who have differing ultimate concerns, different gods, and who respond to the Living God in different ways.
There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call "atheists," and those who think they are facts are "religious." Which ...
The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is trainin...
1. Bullying is not okay. Period. 2. Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people. 3. If your sincerely-held religious beliefs require you to bully children, then your beliefs are fucked up.
When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion w...
I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.
One always goes back to one's childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious.
The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
