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The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion. – Michael Behe

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose. – Azar Nafisi

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs. – Richard Le Gallienne

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct. – Richard Le Gallienne

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments. – Cliff Stearns

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion. – John Cale

We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting. – Tom Baker

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible. – Mark Hopkins

Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion. – Roy Moore

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion. – Ernest Istook

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion. – Ernest Istook

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science. – Johan Huizinga

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music – participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing. – Will Oldham

To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out – or worse. – Robert Shea

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion. – Tom T. Hall

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. – Tim Bishop

That means that every human being – without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin – possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity. – Hans Kung

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values. – Allen Tate

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need. – Harvey Cox

Scientology is not a white religion. It is not just for white people. – Doug E. Fresh