Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.
Politics must not be separated from religious values; religion must not be separated from political responsibility.
Heaven for climate, Hell for company.
If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.
No religion can be built on force.
If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it.
I consider Christian theology to be one of the greatest disasters of the human race.
Americans practice different faiths in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. And many good people practice no faith at all.
The test of our religion is whether it fits us to meet emergencies. A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
There is no God and we are his prophets.
The trilogy composed of politics, religion and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society.
I can criticize your religion all I want, and you can criticize mine. I don't like this whole climate of, 'You can't ever say anything bad about the group I'm in, cause every group is untouchable. ' We can all criticize each other and engage in debate all we want.
Religion is good, as it controls the people that don't have the intelligence to make worthwhile decisions. However, it could be debated as to whether this makes up for the atrocities committed by these people.
Morality binds and blinds.
Early humans, bursting with questions about Nature but with limited understanding of its dynamics, explained things in terms of supernatural persons and person-animals who delivered the droughts and floods and plagues. . . .
The Christian religion is so manifestly contrary to the facts, belief in it can only be held with the most delusional gerrymandering imaginable.
Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.
The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.
God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope.