The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.
In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.
Religion, art, and science flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much opportunity for grand gestures. It has little room for martyrs. But life is not supposed to be about dying well. It is about living well.
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.
When you watch television shows, as good as they are, like ‘Joan of Arcadia’ and ‘Touched by an Angel,’ everything is this kind of mishmash of faith but not any specific religion.
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
We first fought… in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
I respect religion and all people’s ideas of it. I think everyone should be able to do whatever they want to do with their own life. I just don’t particularly like it when people try and force their ideas on others.
There’s no religion but sex and music.
Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There’s nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
I won’t take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
Chess is a game where all different sorts of people can come together, not a game in which people are divided because of their religion or country of origin.
My view on Islam is that it is not so much a religion as a totalitarian political ideology with religious elements.
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
It’s a common part of the narrative of the history of Christianity that it was ‘real’ religion that involved real spirituality and real faith, and that’s why it’s completely superseded the more pagan polytheistic practices.
Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.
The culinary world is a fascinating place that has been influenced over the centuries by culture, religion, fashion, war, art, science and, more recently, globalisation.
We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
‘Greenleaf’ never mocks religion. It reminds us that people in churches are human, and no one is perfect.
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
