Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

We need a new religion.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.

In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.