Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.
I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.
In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.
No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.
Any history buffs, people who like religion, suspense and mystery mixed with history, or anyone who likes 'The Da Vinci Code,' needs to read Ken Follett.
What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.
I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.
TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.
I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation - I don't care what religion it is.
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.
Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.
I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.
If I wouldn't offend my religion or God, why would I want to offend an audience because in effect those people are being watched over by the same person.
I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy.
The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion. This is absolute nonsense. If anything, it's the reverse.
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
