Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.
Two things in India are religion - one is cricket, and one is movies - these are two things.
Kita butuh Islam ramah bukan Islam marah
We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.
It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
I must try desperately to absorb all information I can about the Middle East. I want to excel. I want to speak articulately about the politics of the Middle East and its religion.
My concern is to keep religion and the state separated. I don't think that religion and politics go together. When you see political decisions colored by religion, decisions that affect us all... I thought: 'I do not want to go back to medieval times...
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.
The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.
The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
I never thought I would write about the Book of Revelation. It's so dense; it's so complex and puzzling. But then I found I was thinking about a number of themes, one of which has to do with politics and religion.
In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.
I have to have an emotional connection to what I am ultimately selling because it is emotion, whether you are selling religion, politics, even a breath mint.
The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion...
