“The search for religion is the starting point of thought.”
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“I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.”
“Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion.”
“Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.”
“And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.”
“The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.”
“For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.”
“So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.”
“They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.”
“I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.”
“I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.”
“The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.”
“I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore.”
“When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.”
“Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.”
“Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.”
“Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.”
“Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.”
“Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.”
“And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.”
“Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.”
“You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.”
“The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.”
“It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”