Quotes About Religion

I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people.

Palestinians are Christian, Muslims, atheist, Buddhist - you name it. And the majority I know have nothing against Judaism and everything against Israeli oppression.

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

Fighting in the name of god is the biggest paradox ever.

The giving of the Quran is in Islam what the incarnation of Christ is to Christianity. If this is so, then Quran-burning is parallel to Christ-crucifying.

Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.

Marriage is a sacrament, and the decision of what is a sacrament lies with the Church, not with Parliament.

I'd grown up very Catholic, parochial school, and Warlock was a way of working a lot of things out.

Being a Mormon is not a part-time religion. It is your life. You eat, sleep, and breathe Mormonism.

Kentucky isn't particularly religious.

My being Muslim is only one part of my identity. But particularly in India and the world over, a concerted effort is being made to diminish all other aspects of identity and only take your religious identity as who you are.

The Muslim Brotherhood and the Salifist parties are a real force in the Egyptian society.

In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic, had had enough of church.

No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery of the past.

It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the world.

I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.

I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for example, where, after the famous line about religion being 'the opium of the people,' he goes on to call it 'the heart of a heartless world.'

Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.

In our time, there are still many, like those in the Good Samaritan story, who being of the religious classes in that time, purposely crossed to the other side of the road, and passed by the injured and bleeding.

THE FOLLOWING ARGUMENT is intended to be an exercise in sociological theory. Specifically, it seeks to apply a general theoretical perspective derived from the sociology of knowledge to the phenomenon of religion. While at certain points the argument moves on levels of considerable abstraction, it never leaves (at least not intentionally) the frame of reference of the empirical discipline of sociology.

Religion legitimates so effectively because it relates the precarious reality constructions of empirical societies with the ultimate reality.

religion has been the historically most widespread and effective instrumentality of legitimation.

exclusivist, pluralist, and inclusivist. The exclusivist position concedes little if anything to the relativizing process: Christianity is reaffirmed in ringing tones as the absolute truth. As one would expect, this position is likely

And the god of Ahab was called Beelzebub. Nowadays we call him Pir Bub.