Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern society. Unless they are reasonably well-educated, they can't deal with them.
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church... I was born and raised Catholic, which is about the extent of my religion. My parents made one request: that I have my first Holy Communion.
The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.
If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.
Wonder is the basis of worship.
If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'
Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'
Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the o...
I think religion played a huge part in Bush's re-election.
I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.
I don't know - I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.
Often, economists spend their energies squabbling with one another, but arguably the more important contrast is between our broadly liberal economic worldview and the various alternatives - common around the globe - that postulate natural hierarchies...
For the record, I don't worship the devil. I just hate religion.
In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
