Equal protection under the law – for race, religion, gender or sexual orientation – should not be subject to the most popular sentiments of the day.
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.
Jesus was born a Jew, and he died a Jew. It never occurred to him to establish a new religion. He never crossed himself: he had no reason to. He never set one foot in a church. He went to synagogue.
As we see thousands of public and private Christmas trees and nativity displays around the country, they remind us again of the powerful American value built into our Constitution: our freedom of religion.
Bollywood is a place which is completely free from caste, region and religion. Some people might work in the industry with the help of networking but I feel is that it’s your artistic competence that gets you work in industry.
In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.
What the feminists want of me is something they haven’t examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
Sports is a unique thing in our country. It’s so influential. It’s almost like a sacrament for religion.
Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous.
Religion and slavery are incompatible.
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
Anti-frackers are disingenuous. They bow to the religion of environmentalism.
In Indiana, we don’t have an official state religion, but if we did, it would be basketball.
Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme.
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it’s interesting.
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.
A lot of the Jews I met in Israel, almost all of them are secular. They get turned off by their religion, in the same way that Americans get turned off Christianity by people like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robinson.
Live shows were always religion for us. We never played a show – whether it was in front of 15 people or 15,000 – where it wasn’t everything we had that night.
