“I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.”
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“Religion leaves no room for human complexity.”
“Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.”
“Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.”
“Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.”
“The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.”
“Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.”
“I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.”
“I'm not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I'm happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree.”
“There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and 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.”
“There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.”
“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.”
“Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.”
“After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question.”
“Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.”
“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.”
“I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.”
“But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.”
“Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.”
“I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.”
“It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.”
“The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.”
“I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.”