There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.
Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.
I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.
I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
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.
There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.
The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.
To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.
We're so mixed up about religion in this culture. We say the Pledge of Allegiance, 'under God indivisible,' but there's no prayer in the schools. I would be so untethered without my personal faith. I wouldn't be able to go through a day - but that's my own experience.
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.
I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is.
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
The institution of religion is important.
There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' We talk about teaching ethics in schools - people say, 'What ethics? Whose ethics? Maybe we can't.' And they confuse that with teaching of religion.
I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.
It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.
There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
The country of the Two Holy Places has in our religion a peculiarity of its own over the other Muslim countries. In our religion, it is not permissible for any non-Muslim to stay in our country. Therefore, even though American civilians are not targeted in our plan, they must leave.
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.
Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.
The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.
The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion.
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Religion and gods and beliefs - for me, it all comes down to your brother. And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole - it's about human connections.
Religion does not consist in making a noise, yet when the soul is filled with the Spirit of the Lord, sweet, heart-felt praise to God glorifies him.
The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
