A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.