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“I was driven from my position as Interior Secretary, not because of my environmental record, but because of my Christian beliefs. That's the real struggle.”

Real Christian Belief Religious Struggle Records Position Environmental Driven Secretary Interiors

Author:James G. Watt

“If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals.”

“Belief in a certain series of myths was neither obligatory as a part of the true religion, nor was it supposed that, by believing, a man acquired religious merit and conciliated the favour of the gods.”

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Book:Religion of the Semites (Ppr)

Source: Religion of the Semites (Ppr)

“We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.”

Source: An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture

“Liberalism is part of a religious disorder that demands a belief that life is controllable.”

Life Is Belief Religious Demand Liberalism Disorder

Book:How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter

Source: How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter

“The door of the Free Exercise Clause stands tightly closed against any government regulation of religious beliefs as such. Government may neither compel affirmation of a repugnant belief, nor penalize or discriminate against individuals or groups because they hold views abhorrent to the authorities.”

May Government Individual Belief Religious Justice Views Doors Groups Exercise Authority Regulation Affirmation Religious Belief Clauses Government Regulation Abhorrent

Author:William J. Brennan

“A belief is made religious, not so much by its content, as rather by the way it is held.”

Way Made Belief Religious

Author:Don Cupitt

“I am not going to talk about religious beliefs, but about matters so obvious that it has gone out of style to mention them.”

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Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. I am sure that either the one or the other class is mistaken in that belief, and perhaps in some respects both.”

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Book:Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 by Abraham Lincoln

Source: Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 by Abraham Lincoln

“Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.”

Ifs Love Made States Belief Force Religious Love Is Dangerous Produce Hatred Operations Regulation Introducing Begets Religious Belief Unbelief Like Love

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“It is absolutely vital that we do all we can to allow Americans to practice their religious ways, while simultaneously ensuring that no one's beliefs infringe upon those of others. We should also serve as champions of freedom of religion throughout the world.”

World Way Should Belief Religious Freedom Practice Champion Freedom Of Religion

Author:Benjamin Carson

“There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.”

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Author:Isaac Hayes

“It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.”

Humans Book Reading Belief Religious Divine Authority Bible

Book:William James: Essays and Lectures

Source: William James: Essays and Lectures

“When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, shouldn't that be a subject for discussion and debate?”

Persons Belief Causes Religious Subjects Policy Battle Devil Evidence Deny Debate Discussion Religious Belief Public Policy

Author:Lawrence M. Krauss

“I absolutely believe that people should show respect to everybody, regardless of their lifestyle, regardless of their beliefs, religious beliefs or any other kind of belief.”

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Author:Rick Warren

“Faith in public life does not mean that God tells you to bomb another country or to go get Saddam Hussein. Faith in public life means that every child, regardless of their religious belief, should have health care and be able to go to school. Because my faith saying I can bomb Iraq is the same as your faith saying you can take over a passenger plane and fly it into the World Trade Center.”

“I don't affiliate myself with any specific religious group. I connect to different ritualistic aspects of different belief systems, and I see the connecting thread between all religious beliefs.”

Different Belief Religious Groups Aspect Thread Connecting Religious Belief Belief Systems Different Beliefs

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I'm very vocal about my belief that all religion is garbage. Most of my friends are religious or at least spiritual. These are people I like and I know are intelligent. It's this thing that I carry around. I know I'd be a better person if I was fairer, but it's at the core of who I am and what I believe.”

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Author:David Cross

“I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.”

Ifs Desire Religion Order Belief Religious Honour Religious Belief

Book:Collected Works: (1917:0ct.-1918:Jul.)

Source: Collected Works: (1917:0ct.-1918:Jul.)

“The difficulty with pragmatic arguments for a religion is that truths do not always "work", and beliefs that "work" are by no means always true.”

Mean Belief Religious Argument Difficulty Pragmatic

Author:John Warwick Montgomery

“And a lot of times, the religious discussion is almost a masquerade for the real question, is what stories that we tell ourselves and that we tell each other and what convictions and beliefs actually have the capacity to make us the kind of people who together can make the world the kind of world we all want it to be?”

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Author:Rob Bell

“I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find all fundamentalism to be terrifying and very destructive.”

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Author:Anne Lamott

“I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.”

Thinking Mean Ideas Belief Religious Atheist Organized Hostile Positively Religious Belief Bad Ideas Organized Religion

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some of it, however, is also happening within the existing churches and religious institutions wherever the members of those congregations do not identify with rigid and exclusive belief systems whose unconscious purpose is to foster a sense of separation on which the egoic mind structures depend for their survival.”

“That ideology was never going to work, was it? It was just cobbled together from different beliefs: The anti-intellectualism of the Khmer Rouge, the religious persecution of the Nazis, the enforced beard-wearing from the world of folk music, and the segregation and humiliation of women from the world of golf.”

“Religious freedom is often referred to as America's first freedom. Our country was founded by religious exiles and built on the belief that God has given all people certain inalienable rights. Government's role in society is to protect these rights and ensure that we are safe from religious persecution and discrimination.”

“However the great successes of science - Galileo's telescopic observations, Newton's law of gravity, etc - all of this great success caused people to sort of say, what if we could establish religion on that same successful basis? What if we could have a good rational foundation for religious belief. What if religion could be sort of like science. Of course, that can't be.”

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Author:George Coyne

“The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.”

Whole Belief Religious Dimensions Transcendence Religious Belief

Author:George Coyne

“Yes, the kingdom of Christianity and the Church has been one of the most destructive forces in history, and there are levels of bastardization of religious beliefs. But the unique thing about Christianity is that it is so amorphous and not reductive to culture or place or anything. It's extremely malleable.”

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Author:Sufjan Stevens

“In Bolivia there are Catholic, Evangelical, Methodist, Baptist churches, and so on. In Bolivia there are indigenous religious beliefs like the rite of Pachamama Mother Earth, which shows us that Mother Earth is our life, we are born out of the Earth we live on the Earth and return to the Earth.”

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Author:Evo Morales

“With our goddess, the Pachamama, and it is not possible to continue having a monopoly of religious faith, only Catholic. We have therefore adopted the new constitution as a secular state where all religious beliefs will be respected.”

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Author:Evo Morales

“No matter how much we may study, it is not possible to come to know God unless we live according to His commandments, for God is not know by science, but by the Holy Spirit. Many philosophers and learned men came to the belief that God exists, but they did not know God. It is one thing to belief that God exists and another to know Him. If someone has come to know God by the Holy Spirit, his soul will burn with love for God day and night, and his soul cannot be bound to any earthly thing.”

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