The Mohammedan religion is the finest of all.
I am not a Jew in the synagogue and a feminist in the world. I am a Jewish feminist and a feminist Jew in every moment of my life.
Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.
How can we be so confident that we are correct about the religion of Islam that it is really different in this insidious way and people 50 years from now, people aren`t going to back on.
When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him in spite of your feelings, you worship him in the deepest way.
The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.
I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.
Nothing but religion is capable of changing pains into pleasures.
Since this is the age of science, not religion, psychiatrists are our rabbis, heroin is our pork, and the addict is the unclean person.
In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.
Hey, let's get serious. . . God knows what he's doin' He wrote this book here And the book says: 'He made us all to be just like Him', So. . . If we're dumb. . . Then God is dumb. . . (And maybe even a little ugly on the side)
What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?
Burton, though an infidel, made it his business to investigate thoroughly every religion. Know a man's faith , and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.
It doesn't matter what race you are. It doesn't matter what religion you are. I always tell people: If you want to be a part of hip-hop, you just need to have a heart. You need to have the courage to tell the truth.
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.
If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar, something truly horrifying, a shared delusion, as adults?
For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron.
But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
