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People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

After all, is football a game or a religion?

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.

With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

Wars have always started over religion.

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.