We don't need this religious cosmopolitanism. It's no good.
We'll limit in all ways the work of religious faiths which are foreign to us.
I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing.
Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.
Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.
Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
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.
We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.
Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.