The fundamentalists are increasing. People afraid to oppose those fundamentalists shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion which is the source of fundamentalism.
The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.
The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion.
I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands like Bad Religion cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.
It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.
I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps you lift heavy weight as heavy as you can handle and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.
One of Dawkins' major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion.
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture religion or tradition propagates.
Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism and when it cracked I was open to religion again.
We live in a great country. It's time again to get religion about it.
Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion I would say I was against it.
I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.
The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin bearing Muslim names. Again shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.
I don't think Romney is wacky at all but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri and will be again.
For that again is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand they do less easily move against him believing that he has the gods on his side.
Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy but you can have a market economy without democracy.
It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others.
The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.
Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.
I've got five kids and I'm married Tommy's got two kids and he's been married Vince just got married again Mick's out of a relationship Tommy's single as well. We've done a lot in our life we've covered a lot of miles.
As far as the men who are running for president are concerned they aren't even people I would date.