3 December 2020 Rupert Sheldrake Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
3 December 2020 Sarah Silverman I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It’s funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I’m not religious at all. I have no religion.
3 December 2020 Studs Terkel Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
3 December 2020 Anais Nin When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
3 December 2020 Scott Adams Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
3 December 2020 Eugene Ionesco There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
3 December 2020 Jennifer Aniston I don’t have a religion. I believe in a God. I don’t know what it looks like but it’s MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.
3 December 2020 Barbara Walters First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
3 December 2020 Mary Douglas It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.
3 December 2020 Charles Spurgeon If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
3 December 2020 Jack Dee I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn’t.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
3 December 2020 Eddie Izzard There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
3 December 2020 Joseph Campbell Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Manson My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.
3 December 2020 Christy Turlington A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.
3 December 2020 Christopher Lasch Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
3 December 2020 Theodore C. Sorensen We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.
3 December 2020 Albert Einstein My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
3 December 2020 William Robertson Smith We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.
3 December 2020 Anne McCaffrey I also don’t have organized religion on Pern. I figured – since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing – that religion was one problem Pern didn’t need.
3 December 2020 Shirin Ebadi Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
3 December 2020 John Updike Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
