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I have a very deep religious belief.
Mstislav Rostropovich / Cellist
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Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.
Richard Rohr / Priest
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I think most religious belief structures are essentially like mind viruses.
Panos Cosmatos /
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I'm completely lacking any sense of religious belief, but I am superstitious.
Clive Sinclair /
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If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.
Marian Seldes / Film Actress
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
Karen Maitland / Author
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
E. O. Wilson / Biologist
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A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
Frances Wright / Writer
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Work is life for me, it is the only point of life - and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything.
Laurence Olivier / Actor
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It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
Viktor Orban / Prime Minister Of Hungary
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Identity
National Identity
Religious Belief
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Rid
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We know that at conception, the genetic code is there for a unique individual. This is not something that is just a religious belief.
Dan Lipinski / U.s. Representative
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Conception
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We have to protect the rights of every person and group to follow their sincere religious belief peacefully without hurting other people.
Josh Hawley /
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Iran rejects weapons of mass destruction based on its belief system, its religious belief system, as well as well as its ethical standpoint.
Hassan Rouhani / President Of Iran
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Destruction
Ethical
Iran
Mass
Mass Destruction
Rejects
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Standpoint
Weapons
Based
System
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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.
Peggy Noonan / Author
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Choices
Despair
Existential
Grew
Marijuana
My Generation
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Choice
Chose
Faced
Generation
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Regardless of your religious belief, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity, there is no place in our communities for hate.
Jacky Rosen /
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This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.
John Howard / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
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Ideas
Might
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Beyond
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The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.
Jon Meacham / Editor
American Life
Belief
Capacity
Competing
Religious Belief
Republicanism
Controlling
Factor
Lies
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There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.
Evelyn Waugh / Writer
Atheism
Belief
Commit
Draws
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Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.
Jon Meacham / Editor
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Doubt
Inquiry
Questioning
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Unfolding
Subject
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I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief.
Bill Gates / Investor
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Mean
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Reduce
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You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
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Divorce
Public Service
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You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
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Political
Public Service
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The Constitution treats religious belief as uniquely special, uniquely central to the dignity of the human person, and, for that reason, beyond the power of the state to control.
Josh Hawley /
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Dignity
Religious Belief
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Treats
Beyond
Central
Uniquely
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Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.
Gary Bauer / Activist
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Ideology
Life Experience
Political
Political Ideology
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In 1984, I gave a speech at Notre Dame titled 'Religious Belief and Public Morality.' I said that Catholic legislators will live by the laws of the church because we want to stay in the club.
Mario Cuomo / Former Governor Of New York
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Legislators
Morality
Notre Dame
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Dame
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Religious liberty doesn't include encouraging a fellow American to engage in violent jihad and kill an American here. That is not protected free speech. That is not protected religious belief.
George Pataki / Former Governor Of New York
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Free Speech
Jihad
Liberty
Protected
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Include
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The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.
Francis Spufford / Author
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Common Ground
Human Experience
Ordinary
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Recognisable
Sustain
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George Washington participated as a vestryman in his local congregation, but that didn't really imply any particular kind of religious belief. This was necessary in order to participate in the society.
Matthew Stewart /
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We should get to the business of providing at least one million opportunities each year for young Americans to spend a service year with peers who are different from them - by race, ethnicity, income, politics and religious belief.
Stanley A. Mcchrystal / Armed Force Officer
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Income
Peers
Providing
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At Least One
Each Year
Young Americans
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As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.
Alan Lightman / Physicist
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Compatible
Different
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Views
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If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.
Dalai Lama /
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Faith
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Belief
Ethics
Okay
People
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No Interest
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The great redemptive religion which has always been known as Christianity is battling against a totally diverse type of religious belief, which is only the more destructive of the Christian faith because it makes use of traditional Christian terminology.
John Gresham Machen /
Christian Faith
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Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.
Frances Wright / Writer
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Religious Belief
Sensations
Actions
Deduce
Imaginations
Rule
Square
Trace
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There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
Zac Goldsmith /
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Religious Belief
Work Good Country
Clearly
Religions
Drawn
Politicians
Guided
Hugely
Mix
Scriptures
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On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.
Sam Harris / Author
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Evidence
Organize
Our Lives
Relax
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It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief.
Gary Bauer / Activist
Arise
Belief
Candidates
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Religious Belief
Voters
Accept
Politicians
Exploit
Frequently
Likely
Positions
Unthinkingly
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You will notice that the Occupy Wall Street crowds - and the progressives who support them - focus on bringing the wealthy down to earth rather than lifting the 99 percent. They have a nearly religious belief that too much wealth is fundamentally immoral and unhealthy for society.
David Harsanyi / Journalist
Belief
Crowds
Down To Earth
Focus
Immoral
Lifting
Occupy Wall Street
Percent
Religious Belief
Too Much
Unhealthy
Wall
Wealth
Bringing
Nearly
Street
Fundamentally
Notice
Occupy
Progressives
Wall Street
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There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.
Jesse Ventura / Politician
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Founding
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Structure
Thinking
Lots
Anybody
Nation
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Founding Fathers
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I think that if you are a resolute, unswerving atheist, you have that sense that you are conscious of the God-shaped hole that has been left in the wake of any religious belief, and in a way, one is much more drawn to articulate why it is that certain places, or certain experiences, have a kind of power.
Geoff Dyer / Writer
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I have no religious belief myself, but I don't think we should fight about it. In particular, I think that we should not rubbish moderate religious leaders like the Archbishop of Canterbury because I think we all agree that extreme fundamentalism is a threat, and we need all the allies we can muster against it.
Martin Rees / Astronomer
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Canterbury
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Fundamentalism
Muster
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Thinking
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