Every religion says war is evil, but one way or another they end up playing along.
Religion Quotes
Religion is a page where believers and unbelievers share space. Shakespeare and Milton lead, but Robert Ingersoll and the biologist Jerry Coyne are close behind, and the sourced favourites lean sceptical: Bertrand Russell in Sceptical Essays (1928) on moralists and Hell, Bierce in 1911 calling religion a daughter of Hope and Fear.
Three entries are flagged. “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep” is credited to the missionary Jim Elliot, and the notes call it a paraphrase of the English clergyman Philip Henry (1631–1696). Newton’s remark that he could calculate the motions of heavenly bodies but not the madness of the people is disputed, and it is usually tied to the South Sea stock bubble. A line about Earth and Heaven credited to David Hare is flagged misattributed.
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
The terms of this new religion, though based on Hebrew models, were Greek terms.
I think it's important just to distinguish between Islamism and Islam, a religion.
The key is not to confuse myth and empirical results, or religion and science.
All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.
A merged religion and a negligible or subordinate religion are no religion.
The History of Religions is destined to play an important role in contemporary cultural life.
If there is a God, atheism must strike Him as less of an insult than religion.
Christianity is more than a religion; it is the message of a New Creation.
Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.