Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.
When I was a kid, during those days, you couldn't use instruments. It was against the pastor's religion, so all the singers would make these instruments with their voices. It was just unbelievable. I couldn't explain it.
I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.
I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.
It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.
Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.
In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.
With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.
I don't believe any religion should be exclusive or feel superior in any way, or be judgmental. It should be a quiet, private thing.
I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, 'We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.'
Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.
I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.
Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
