Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.
A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.
It is beneficial for Turkish democracy that not all religious conservatives are united under one banner.
They hate us because we are atheists and we feel sorry for them because they are religious.
I am not religious in any sense; in fact, I consider myself an atheist.
People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.
The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.
No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.
In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger.
It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
I try to be - well, not holy - but my whole family is very religious, and I want to be like that, too. So I try my hardest to be more in touch with the Lord.
Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs.
Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.
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.
