Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call 'lightly religious.' So I don't buy the notion that we can't laugh about religion in America.
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.
Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.
Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.
I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that.
I don't care if you're Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or whatever your religion is, when you listen to a spiritual song and you really open your heart, you can feel it. You can feel the message of it. Just a simple story.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Terrorism has no nationality or religion.
Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.
Primitive societies without religion have never been found.
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
