Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.