Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

The fundamentalists are increasing. People afraid to oppose those fundamentalists shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion which is the source of fundamentalism.

The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion if there is one and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

There is no religion without love and people may talk as much as they like about their religion but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast it is all a sham.

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion but in time a scientific result will establish itself.

Scientology is not a white religion. It is not just for white people.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion whatever else it has done has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.

And what is religion you might ask. It's a technology of living.

What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion that old singing that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being of my writing.

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex age race skin color language religion political view or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

People don't talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it's not an incredibly safe place to do it.

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

My theory is if you have a religion it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

Religion is a strange wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist one-quarter Catholic one-quarter Jewish.

And religion causes most of the problems war and economics of course and study your history or you're going to repeat it and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling you don't get it you're missing the whole point.

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.

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations from the state down to the village garden club end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.

To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music listening to music making records and singing.