We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.
I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.
I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.
More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.
Genghis Khan decreed religious tolerance for all of his conquered peoples. So I think he definitely would approve of our constitutional protections of freedom of religion. I think he would also approve of the way the U.S. has been able to attract talented people from all over the world.
To uphold religious tolerance, it is very wise that an adherent of a religion should not do something forbidden in another religion in front of the adherent of the latter.
Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.
Religion is all good, but we are almost back to medieval times now, where we are obsessed with going into religious wars and electing our politicians based on their religious statements.
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
I'm against any religion, and Communism and Nazism - they're both equally religions. They're just replacement gods.
Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.
We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.
The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.
If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.
