No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.
People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world.
The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.
It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
I've always been very vocal about my religion. It's a big part of who I am.
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.
In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.
After all, is football a game or a religion?
There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.
Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.
Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.
Religion is not changed as easily as a shirt.
When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.
True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
