Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully.
The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
The imperative of protecting religious freedom was not just a nod in the direction of piety. It reflects the Framers' belief that religion was indispensable to sustaining our free system of government.
It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
I started seeing in the monsters as a more sincere form of religion because the priests were not that great, but Frankenstein was great.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others.
The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making.
Gandhi said it; Frederick Douglass said it. A lot of people have probably said 'It's not Christ that I have a problem with, it's his people.' And that was my struggle: it's God's people. I felt disenfranchisement. I felt so much abuse from organized religion because I'm walking in a direction that a lot of them couldn't fathom and can't understand.
The American free enterprise system is the greatest tool to lift people out of poverty ever created in human history and when applied properly, does not discriminate by race, religion, or skin color.
Nation states that are used to imposing capital controls will face a quandary: ban cryptocurrencies and live in the technology dustbin; enable them, and this virus - this religion, this protocol - will enable the free flow of money and language, along with packets, around the globe.
I grew up in a secular environment, you know, in the '60s and '70s. My mother's family was Catholic, but you know, just very kind of conventionally Catholic. You know, nothing - there was nothing, you know, extreme about their version of religion. And my father was a free spirit, you know? He had no time for religion at all.
Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
Freedom of religion requires not only freeing religion from undue government regulation and interference. It also requires freeing religion from discrimination and from vile acts of hatred and persecution.
Our values are tolerance and determination and freedom of religion, freedom to act, opportunities, equality of opportunities amongst everyone and for all.
Freedom of religion is a fundamental Constitutional principle. It's a founding principle of this country.
I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America.
The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion.
Freedom of religion does not entitle your religion to have a privileged position within the public sphere.
