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.

Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.

I don't think you need religion.

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion and dethrones the national deity.

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.

Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore like any religion.

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

But strictly speaking this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

In all the antique religions mythology takes the place of dogma that is the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.

Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.

In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature the sentiment of the heartless world as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.

It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.

The songs keep on writing themselves and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

It is the sincerest thing I have written caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession which I was trying to throw off and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

We need a new religion.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat leading to bad science and worse religion.