“I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.”
Religion asks the biggest questions and offers answers that millions of people organize their lives around. These quotes approach faith traditions with respect and curiosity, exploring belief, doubt, ritual, and the search for something larger than yourself.
“Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.”
“I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.”
“When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.”
“Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.”
“It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.”
“One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.”
“Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?”
“One of Dawkins' major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion.”
“I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.”
“The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.”
“Religion leaves no room for human complexity.”
“It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.”
“Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?”
“Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.”
“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.”
“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.”