I think of religion as something that stains the person. It's a mindset you can never get free from, it's always in the back of your head.
I'm just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone's God-given right to think the way they think and that's fine. That's why our ancestors came here to America, to believe what they want, pray how they want and follow a reli...
I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.
You're always going to have extremists in every religion.
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I don't believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too ...
Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
I didn't see how wearing prosthetics was quite so different from being born with flaming red hair in a crowd of black-haired babies, or being of a different religion from that of every other child in your area.
The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.
I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
One man's cult is another man's religion.
I broke with my religion in college.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that h...
Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least.
The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.
The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don't need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It's not just an idea, it's reality. We're discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.
I believe religion is man-made.
The fact that I am not Jewish by religion does not prevent me from connecting to the Jewish nation's spirituality.
How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
