The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion.
More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.
Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services.
We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.
I'm not really into religion.
I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.
But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.
I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.
It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.
Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.
I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.
I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.
