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I am not a Jew in the synagogue and a feminist in the world. I am a Jewish feminist and a feminist Jew in every moment of my life.
Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God, while your mind belongs to them.
If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Under the rubric of religious freedom, we respect the right to worship differently much more than the right to worship not at all.
Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions.
The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture.
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination
Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
If you want to know why you were jplaced on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.
The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular confession.
Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs.
I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.
Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.
Science is and should be seen as "completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results.
I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.
Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.
... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.
What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.
Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.
Elevate. Each day, live to elevate yourself, each day elevate one person. Make elevation your religion and you shall reach infinity.
It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.
The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.
Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.
Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.
The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.
I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.
The Constitution has never treated religion as merely another private opinion that government can order people to keep to themselves.
Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.
The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.
Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.
If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality.
The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost.
I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.