The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.

You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion.

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.