Quotes About Religion

The Church's role should be separated from the state's role.

I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved.

I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.

If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business.

We are no longer a nation of one church; we are a nation of many churches.

The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book.

There are enough churches already, but the world still needs salvation.

A move to decide citizenship on the basis of religion amounts to rejecting the Constitution.

Homosexuality is not about love, it's not about family, and it's not about civil rights.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

I believe that a man called Jesus did walk the earth at one time but I don't think he was the superhero that the Bible makes him out to be.

All of my work has been an effort to show that Christianity is superior and not just another mythology.

Paradoxically, we have become so ethnocentric in our relativism that we feel it is only okay for others - not us - to think their religion is superior!

Understanding the need for religion is a far superior goal to bashing it.

I don't feel superior because I think there's no God. Actually, I would love to be able to go, 'Well, the world hasn't been kind to me, but there's something good around the corner, because the Man has a plan.' I wish I believed that. There's wonderful comfort in that.

Christianity is either supernatural or nothing at all.

The belief in something bigger and supernatural is not the same thing as linear religion.

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

The border between the natural and the supernatural, religion and philosophy, may not always be clear. But there are lines, and we should know and accept which side of it we are on.

I was brought up by a Marxist rationalist stepfather, so I don't believe in the supernatural or religion or horoscopes, and the absolute nature of death is quite helpful for me. My husband was there, then he wasn't.

I was raised Jewish and fully embrace the core beliefs of Judaism - the ones that I identify as core beliefs, which are essentially freedom and justice. But the supernatural aspects of religion were never important to me.

Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'

This was a seminal moment in my life - my dad took me to see the original production of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' at the Palace Theatre in 1973. I thought it was just amazing, so powerful. The idea of using rock music to tell the story of Jesus was incredible.

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