We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit. – William Robertson Smith
My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age. – S. T. Joshi
Religion is run by thought police. ‘Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don’t ask questions. Go die for your country.’ The spirituality says, ‘Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you’re doing while you’re doing it.’ – Tommy Chong
If I wouldn’t offend my religion or God, why would I want to offend an audience because in effect those people are being watched over by the same person. – Tim Conway
If someone doesn’t have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies. – Wale
When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power. – Walter Jon Williams
I have my own religion. I’m sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish. – Tom T. Hall
In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science. – Simon Greenleaf
It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection. – Samuel Freeman Miller
After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised. – William Lilly
Corporate America limits the world to consumerism. Science can limit it to the material world. Even religion limits it to a lot of theories that can explain everything. I think we need cinema to break that apart and remind us that we’re not in control, and we don’t understand as much as we think do. – Scott Derrickson