Boy, if Garth Ennis had created a religion, I would sure like to be a part of that. It just makes sense, the way he tackles things in it. It's really heavy stuff and it's incredibly well written.
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.
If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.
The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.
I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.
We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.
Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.