Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.
The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.
There’s a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.
Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
The First Amendment only says ‘Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.’ It can disrespect all it wants.
When man fell from grace, he lost a kingdom, not a religion. He lost dominion over the earth; He did not lose Heaven. Therefore, mankind’s search is not for a religion or for Heaven but for his kingdom.
Baseball is more than a game to me, it’s a religion.
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection.
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
While we as members of the Coalition strongly support free speech, it is not unlimited free speech. People aren’t free to vilify others on the basis of race or religion.
Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
Religion, as it is understood in the West, does not lead toward progress, and science does not lead toward humanism.
No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.
I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama.
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
I’m interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.
Duplicity in matters of religion is not confined to Pakistan, but it hurts the most in societies where debate on religion is asphyxiated and preachers of hate have become keepers of faith.
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.
We eat, drink, and sleep religion, but we do not do good.
The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms… The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.
