There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
What we need in Europe is to push back against the idea that religion is so farfetched that it's not worth talking about.
Christianity is a religion of continuity and discontinuity as well. It's about what stays the same and what changes in the twinkling of an eye. Both are necessary truths, but sometimes it's important to accentuate the discontinuity, the sudden leap, ...
The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.
We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and con...
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.
Religion looms as large as an elephant in the United States, to the point that being nonreligious is about the biggest handicap a politician running for office can have, bigger than being gay, unmarried, thrice married, or black.
Understanding the need for religion is a far superior goal to bashing it.
There are many reasons for kindness, and religion is just one of them.
Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.
I'm personally a nonbeliever, so I'm struggling with if we really need religion.
It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.
I don't disrespect anybody who espouses a particular religion or belief - that is their own right to do that. But I think it's terribly important to look beyond the comfort that religion gives.
I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.
Religion is just mind control.
I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien.
Wars have always started over religion.
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
