3 December 2020 Andrew Greeley I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.
3 December 2020 Noah Webster In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.
3 December 2020 John Boyd Orr 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.
3 December 2020 John Henrik Clarke Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.
3 December 2020 Maria Monk All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion and I felt something like indecision.
3 December 2020 Gene Robinson I’ve long been really intrigued with what is the… proper role of faith and religion in public life.
3 December 2020 Walter Pater No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Davis I don’t believe in organized religion – I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
3 December 2020 Voltaire The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
3 December 2020 Don Henley I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that’s usually what I focus on.
3 December 2020 Ulrich Beck All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
3 December 2020 Mary Baker Eddy I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
3 December 2020 Will Oldham What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music – participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.
3 December 2020 Frederick Buechner Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
3 December 2020 Harry Browne The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn’t want.
3 December 2020 Mary Douglas Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.
3 December 2020 E. O. Wilson I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
3 December 2020 Gary Locke Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.
3 December 2020 Tom Perrotta I think I’m fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it’s impossible to ignore.
3 December 2020 Ernest Istook The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.
3 December 2020 David Mamet Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.
