Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

Nevertheless there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness just as Greek drama had once done.

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

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

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

It is already clear after twenty years of socialism in Russia that if you do not provide your society with a new religion it will gradually revert to the old one.

Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

Religion is not a burden not a weight it is wings.

Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.

First of all the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience no matter what religion or color of their skin or situation in life.

Certain I am that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.

I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself.

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force oppression or pressure.

It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.