As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe.
No Australian of any faith should be fired for practising their religion.
One man’s cult is another man’s religion.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
I’m actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure.
I think quite a bit of organized religion has become big business. Jesus Christ never sold the word of God. He never gave a sermon and then said, ‘For $8.99, you can buy the CD.’
If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal.
The constitution of the universe is total natural law. ‘Natural law,’ we say from the field of science. ‘Will of God,’ we say from the field of religion. It’s the same thing.
The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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.
America’s freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.
In countries like China and Indonesia, badminton is like a religion. Players get mobbed in the street. In China, it is a national sport, and Lin Dan, their star player, is treated like David Beckham.
I dislike religion quite intensely. It’s been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first stone to worship.
I’m a scientist, not a theologian. I don’t know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
You can condemn and criticize religion… all those things are fine, but you can’t mock and disrespect people.
When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don’t matter.
The first canon of my religion is that you shouldn’t try to convince anybody to believe like you do.
I’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.
