“There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.”
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“I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.”
“Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.”
“In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.”
“Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.”
“I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong.”
“But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.”
“Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.”
“To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.”
“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.”
“He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.”
“But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.”
“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.”
“Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.”
“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 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, and distorts both.”
“I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.”
“These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.”
“Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil.”
“I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.”
“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.”
“Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.”
“Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'”