“I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God.”
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“Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.”
“I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.”
“To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.”
“The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.”
“The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.”
“I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.”
“Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.”
“Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.”
“Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup.”
“All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.”
“The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.”
“The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.”
“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.”
“Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.”
“Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.”
“Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.”
“It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.”
“Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.”
“I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.”
“The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.”
“Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.”
“Islam is a peaceful religion.”
“I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.”