3 December 2020 Jeffrey Kluger The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires – and gives rise to – deep feelings of faith.
3 December 2020 Salman Rushdie If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
3 December 2020 Joyce Carol Oates Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
3 December 2020 Mary Douglas I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
3 December 2020 Gene Robinson I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.
3 December 2020 Hannah More Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
3 December 2020 David Hilbert Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom – that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.
3 December 2020 Anna Jameson In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
3 December 2020 Jerry Falwell The idea that religion and politics don’t mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
3 December 2020 Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
3 December 2020 Karen Armstrong Every fundamentalist movement I’ve studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.
3 December 2020 Mary Garden Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.
3 December 2020 Ron Lewis Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation’s Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America’s flag and the ideals it represents.
3 December 2020 Cat Stevens I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.
3 December 2020 William Robertson Smith The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
3 December 2020 Chris Matthews I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we’re dead. They’re not going to give up their religion.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
3 December 2020 Ricardo Montalban I found enormous opposition to my religion. It’s like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.
3 December 2020 Margaret Mead Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
3 December 2020 Abdurrahman Wahid All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
3 December 2020 Pam Grier Oh, there’s going to be debate because you’re dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
