Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don’t know. But it’s natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
After all, is football a game or a religion?
Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
A religion must be instrumental in spiritualising the individual into a boundless and holistic nature.
Nothing is more important to me, and nothing was more important to our founding fathers, than freedom of religion.
Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.
I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America.
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call ‘Christian’ the true religion which existed before.
God requireth not a uniformity of religion.
If a film promotes communal harmony, which for me is beyond religion, I am happy to work on it because the film’s premise is in line with my beliefs.
My mother and father were born and raised in Pakistan, where religion is entrenched in the culture and the culture is explicitly unyielding.
There are no grounds for discrimination in Europe, regardless of whether on grounds of gender, sexual orientation, or religion. On the other hand, there is equally no place for radical thought and political Islam.
I’m not really into religion.
The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.
In all religions, we hear of the Seven Planetary Genii: the Hindu tells of Seven Rishi, the Parsi of Seven Ameskaspentas, the Mohammedan of Seven Archangels, and our Christian religion has its Seven Spirits before the Throne.
The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it’s an example of freedom from religion.
We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.
I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.
There’s no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.
Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
When Jews left Judaism, they didn’t stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion.
Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.
Two things in India are religion – one is cricket, and one is movies – these are two things.
