“My political ideas and things like that, even my religion, I try to keep close to me because it's a personal thing, and I don't shove it down people's throats. I don't condemn any artist that wants to do that, like the Baldwins. That's their choice. But in my world, I'm just an entertainer.”
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“I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake, I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time.”
“Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.”
“The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.”
“I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.”
“We live in a great country. It's time again to get religion about it.”
“Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.”
“Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.”
“For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.”
“I broke with my religion in college.”
“Religion is never the problem it's the people who use it to gain power.”
“The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.”
“For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.”
“Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.”
“My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.”
“When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.”
“So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.”
“Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.”
“Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.”
“We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.”
“I believe that there is some spiritual entity that's greater than us. I do not belong to any specific organized religion. I have always believed that, and I believe it even more so now. I believe that someone was listening to me, and someone is giving me an incredibly blessed life.”
“The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.”
“There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.”
“I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.”