Quotes About Religion

Religion that is contained only within a church building is a weekend hobby, not a personal faith.

I would say my poise comes from my faith.

I think for us - and for a lot of people in the Church of Satan - we definitely like ruffling people's feathers and poking fun at organized religion a little bit.

Let's let everybody believe what they want to believe. And that means, P.C. police, don't you be coming down on people who believe in God and who believe in Jesus.

When 'Christians' cite the Bible as the basis for secular policies, they must explain why they believe Muslims in the Middle East are evil for doing the same with the Koran.

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.

Saudi Arabia is the mother and father of political Islam.

I find the heated political debate over the burkini both ridiculous and dangerous.

My concern is to keep religion and the state separated. I don't think that religion and politics go together. When you see political decisions colored by religion, decisions that affect us all... I thought: 'I do not want to go back to medieval times.'

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Religion is a big problem in Israel and the Arab world, but again, the problem isn't religion but political leaders who want to use the religion.

Not all Muslims wish to express themselves in public through a communal religious identity. Identities are multiple, and some may wish to speak instead just as citizens in their professional capacity, through their political party, or their neighborhood body.

'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more Muslims in India, Russia and China than in most Muslim-majority nations. 'Muslim' is not a homogenous entity.

There are broad freedoms in Israel. In fact, Israel's Declaration of Independence grants all Israel's inhabitants equality of social and political rights irrespective of religion, race or gender.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

Islam is not a religion. It's a political system. It has a different set of rules.

I'll be honest with you: politically, I have no issue with people, but my beef sometimes is with religion at the end of the day.

I think, when you become a politician, if you talk about religion too much, you're pandering or something.

We realize there is no political party or politician who fully takes into consideration the issues the church is about. This is nothing new to us.

America's got a Darwin problem - and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, fewer than 40% of Americans are willing to say that they 'believe in evolution.'

All polling places should be safe, without discrimination against any religion.

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.

Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.