Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.
I was in a choir as a kid. It was from those early days that my outlook on harmonies and arrangements were nurtured. I always took that with me, even on the earliest Bad Religion record, which strangely was only about six years after that.
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
For me sport was a religion… with religious sentiment.
I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.
Freedom of religion does not entitle your religion to have a privileged position within the public sphere.
If you don’t like the word ‘religion,’ you can replace it with ‘ideology’ – it’s largely the same thing. At the heart of both religion and ideology is the question of authority and where authority is coming from.
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
For the record, I believe in God, but I do not believe in religion, period.
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.
If everyone’s on the same page, doesn’t matter what race, what background, what religion you are, if everyone comes together like a good, solid football team, baseball team… that’s how you win games. It’s easy.
Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and commune with God. Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone.
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
I think one of the great dangers here is going and categorizing anybody from one religion as a terrorist. That’s not true… That would let the terrorists win. That’s what they want us to do.
