Spirituality in Washington can be more of a - I don't want to say it - but, a networking opportunity. Religion is often used opportunistically in the political conversation.
The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it, damage science, and also weaken the fight against fundamentalism.
There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.
If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other people's religion, and we have a long tradition of that.
I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.
We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all.
I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist.
I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body.
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.
The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
