Quotes About Culture

If we are to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real.

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

For me, I never wore my religion on my sleeve, you know what I'm saying? I never put myself out there as Lupe Fiasco, he's Muslim, he's from Chicago, he likes to ride a skateboard.

Religion is only literature, but luckily literature is not only religion.

A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.

Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.

Christianity isn't dead. It still has the capacity to scare people. It still gives people the creeps, which means there is still some power behind the religion, as sort of watered down as it can be.

The religion of the corporate world is novelty. What is new is always right.

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!

The popular culture still ridicules religion and often treats it like the plague.

History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.

I consider myself a person who comes from a Muslim culture. In any case, I would not say that I'm an atheist. So I'm a Muslim who associates historical and cultural identification with this religion.

Religion dies hard in the Irish.

Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American national culture.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.

The Europeans have fallen away from religion and the church while the rest of the world is seemingly more religious. I don't know how to explain it.

Religion is increasingly a woman's domain in America.

Myth is someone else's religion.

Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity