In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.
Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.
I'm not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I'm happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
Despite what one might gather from the shrill rantings of the leftist commentariat, for whom religion is a sort of disease, religious difference in the United States has rarely led to serious social strife. That is no small achievement, and one that virtually no other Western democracy can boast.
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us - the Supreme Court, President Obama - against traditional religion.
As a Catholic, I find mindfulness helps me participate in my religion more wholeheartedly. If you are praying the rosary, participating in the rituals at Mass, or listening to the priest preach, you will actually be paying attention! Whatever your religion is, it can enhance the experience of participating in that religion.
Wars have always started over religion.
We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.
The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
Many people who say they have no religion are simply saying they have no official religious affiliation. They may actually have strong personal beliefs.
Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.
One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are illiberal, too.
Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.
Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have broken down barriers of race and religion, and the family of nations is a recognized fact.
The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.
They have hijacked my religion.
I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.
St. Patrick, bringing the religion to Ireland, this is what we should celebrate.
Islam is a dangerous religion.
Religion is such a path with people.
I will be a president of all Bulgarians, irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or political affiliations.
