At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.