Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.
If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest.
Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, ...
You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.
I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.
It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden.
The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.
Religion is the root of so much misery in the world, and I've always thought there is lack of criticism against it.
Look at all the misery in the Middle East, for example. All these countries have Islam in common, and far too few dare to criticize Islam as an ideology, and what it's doing to these countries. I know I might get punched in the face for saying these ...
