I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.

The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer.

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.