Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
The fact that President-elect Kennedy would be the first Catholic president did not sit well with many Americans. There was a fear that, as president, Kennedy's decisions would be based on his religion and dictated by the pope.
As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.
I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life.
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.
Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.
Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.
People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.
I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.
I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
When I hear that "Possession is the grave of love," I remember that a religion may begin with the resurrection.
Notre religion, notre morale, notre philosophie, en sont que des formes de decadence de l humanite, le contre mouvement: l art
My religion consists of laughing at myself. My motto is this: As long as there is a me, there is a reason to laugh out loud!
