“I don't think you need religion.”
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“Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.”
“We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.”
“The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.”
“The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.”
“The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.”
“It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.”
“In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.”
“I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.”
“So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.”
“The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.”
“I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.”
“I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.”
“I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.”
“When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.”
“I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.”
“I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.”
“The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.”
“Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.”
“I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.”
“What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?”
“I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in that respect.”
“Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.”
“Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government, religion or manners.”