Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.

I'm against any religion, and Communism and Nazism - they're both equally religions. They're just replacement gods.

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.

Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions.

If you look into the religions, they have this deep idea of human dignity and the source of dignity being conscience.

Every place in the world where there are two peoples - two religions, two languages - there is friction and conflict.

There are so many people, organisations, parities, religions. Whatever you try, someone or the other will be offended.

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

Male circumcision has been practiced for thousands of years and is a deeply important ceremony for two major religions.

God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.

Love, like poems, knows no boundaries. Religions, race, distance not even age can restrict someone from falling in love.

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

That's the big difference between Christianity and other religions. The difference between Works and Grace or Do and Done.

I am a believer of all religions. I will happily visit a temple, mosque, church. I do not differentiate between religions.

All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour.

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

We are not against religions. This country is the cradle of prophecy and the true message and we will not contradict this.

All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions.

All the religions are basically good, but there's something about organised religion that leads to corruptness and poison.

Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.

Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories.

The Fundamentalist Religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.

I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.

We've got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide - and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

I'm not Buddhist, but I am drawn to it because it seems the most beneficial of organised religions and the most compassionate.

Most religions assume that you find purpose through some agent that sits above or outside the world and imbues it with purpose.

Scientology plays an outsize role in the cast of new religions that have arisen in the 20th century and survived into the 21st.

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right.

I've been interested in Eastern religions since I went to college because I was trying to figure out where I stood with Catholicism.

The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.

I think the most influential aspect of my work is to show that Judaism and Christianity exist in a continuity with archaic religions.

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.

The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours.

I know 'Vikings' isn't really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.

There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion.

Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It's the only music that brings all people together, different races, different religions.

Religions have always adopted rich symbolic languages to signify the different aspects of their respective forms of faith and mythology.

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.

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