“It goes beyond mere 'acknowledgment' of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function in this context. In this instance, the government has taken sides on a matter that must be left to individual conscience.” MatterGovernmentPurposeIndividualLeftSidesReligiousPrayerTakenAtheismCitizensExerciseConscienceFunctionMerePositive AtheismInstanceSoleSecularAcknowledgment Author:Barbara Brandriff Crabb
“I despise those shallow religious comics. Dennis the Menace, for instance, is the most shallow. When they show him praying - I just can't stand that sort of thing, talking to God about some cutesy thing that he'd done during the day. I don't think Hank Ketcham has any deep knowledge of things like that.” ThinkingDoneShowsReligiousTalkingAtheismPrayingPositive AtheismInstanceDespiseShallowMenaceTalking To God Author:Charles M. Schulz
“It's when people begin using their religion as just a way of getting power over other people that scares me. I'm afraid that's what's going on in a lot of cases right now. When people deliberately tell lies, Creationism for instance, and pretend, "Oh, it's not really religion." I mean they know they're lying, and yet they're the religious people. There's something wrong there.” PeopleKnowsWayMeanLyingReligiousCasesRight NowInstanceScareCreationismPower Over Others Author:Octavia Butler
“Maybe it's the remnants of my religious upbringing, but I do try and insert a sense of social justice into the work. For instance, to me, Mansfield Park is a story about servitude and slavery. Other people may have a problem with that, but that's how I read the book and so that's how I shot the movie.” PeopleTryingMayBookStoriesProblemSocialReligiousJusticeShotsSocial JusticeSlaveryInstanceParksUpbringingServitudeRemnantsInsertMansfield Park Author:Patricia Rozema