- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion Quotes
Belief looked at from every angle.
Some of these come from personal family history with church and faith, others take a harder look at how religion gets used or misused. For quotes on trust and conviction, see our Faith quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm Christian. Growing up in Ethiopia, it's half-Christian and half-Muslim. You grow up with Muslim kids. I'm very much aware of their religion.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you woke up this morning and you are breathing, and you are Muslim, then you are political. You have no choice but to be political in a country that has politicized you and politicized your religion.
- Freedom From
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 16th and 17th centuries, most people in Britain lived in small village communities. They knew all their neighbours. They dressed alike, and almost all were white. The vast majority belonged to the same religion and spoke much the same language.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acts of violence against one's own countrymen that are legitimated by religion are not new. Nor have such acts been unique to Islam.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historically, religion has often proved a more lethal and more divisive force than any secular ideology. It has also often been a more divisive force than race.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
If anyone gets arrogant about their religion, that's when the religion isn't effective anymore. Any decent religion or any decent philosophy is always about tolerance and individual freedom, not about harm.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.
- Brotherhood
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- Nov 07, 2020