Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture to music to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.

I'm a modern Muslim. I pray and if I have a question I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.

Islam is a peaceful religion.

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion when they should be using it to protect religion.

I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.

Indeed the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.

It's not just the effect of technology on the environment on religion on the economic structure on society on politics etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse and morality without religion is impossible.

We are pre-disposed for fantasy there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

Religion you can't a handle on it you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.

The spiritual element the really important part of religion has no concern with Time and Space temporary mundane laws or conduct.

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

Religion was used as an ideology as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup.

Basically fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.

Religion theme aside most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just let's wind this guy up and see him explode.

I almost got a psychology degree I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion epistomology and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.

The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.

The artist himself may not think he is religious but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.