Quotes About Religion

I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.

And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons.

Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.

The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of our constitutional guarantee for all persons of this country.

If you're religious, it gives you a perspective.

I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore.

People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.

Actually my brother didn't think Imran was religious enough for me. I had to persuade him.

Ultimately, I feel like there is just a pervasive evidence of God. Though I know that is maybe a controversial thing to say.

The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.

I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.

I went to church irregularly and was mostly reading comics in the pew.

The idea of literalism in the Bible is a very new phenomenon. In many ways, it's a product of the scientific revolution.

Major forces that have contributed to the evolution of philanthropy in India in the pre-modern era have mainly been driven by religion, family, and society. The Hindu teaching of 'daan' or 'giving' is present in different ways in almost every celebration or ritual.

People who put money in the church basket and people who go to church and pay the pastor: that isn't real philanthropy; that's just like you belong to a country club. You pay your dues to belong to that church, so you pay your tithing or whatever it is.

Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.

There was once a philosopher who said, 'I don't believe in God, but I fear him greatly.' That's about where I am.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

It is immoral to brand children with religion. 'This is a Catholic child.' 'That is a Muslim child.' I want everyone to flinch when they hear such a phrase, just as they would if they heard, 'That is a Marxist child.'

I believe we have a physical body and a soul. It doesn't matter what religion you are, whether or not you believe in God. I think people believe that there is a soul and a body.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don't have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don't adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

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.

I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.