What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.
Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.
And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.
If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem.
It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
I do engineering, not religion.
Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.
I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.