There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
There are fundamentalist psychopaths in every religion in the world. Every single one.
There are some forms of religion that are bad just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex you have bad religion too.
Religion creates community community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.
We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.
There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
You know I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
I wish your increase in holiness number love religion and righteousness and wait you and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment.
I'm a scientist not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.
Beside all this I think there was something personal being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following yet it's so little known about it which surprised me.
Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong and that His righteousness endures for all generations?
The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion you have got a leak in your religion.
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion which causes us to leave the world and seek God.
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.
There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.
There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.
My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.
I'm actually an evangelical atheist but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation which often cry down works and men's own righteousness and.
There is a vulgar incredulity which in historical matters as well as in those of religion finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
Despite the success cult men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.