Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Folk tales, fairy tales, religion, the occult - these are the things I'm most passionate about, even more than cinema. And I'm very passionate about cinema.
— Robert Eggers
To the man who reads 'Scouting for Boys' superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.
— Robert Baden-Powell
Since I am as evil as can be, I do need religion to offset my evilness!
— Rishi Kapoor
The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.
— Ridley Scott
It was really intense for me to start having conversations with God, when according to the man-made laws in my religion - to be homosexual is evil.
— Ricky Martin
I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.
— Rick Warren
What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths and erect the regard for it into a positive article of religion. Its self-styled organ in our times is the 'Press.'
— Richard Wagner
I am confident in saying that Oberlin did more for me than vice versa. I took a fantastic class in religion, which led me to archaeology, which got me to the Middle East, which led me to international relations, which launched me on my career.
— Richard N. Haass
All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.
— Richard Le Gallienne
I think most of our religious institutions are pretty corrupt, so they're not reliable. I think the Christian religion that I was brought up with has very little to do with Christ, really, and more an institutions that have built up around the church.
— Richard Gere
Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.
— Richard Engel
If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are illiberal, too.
— Richard Dawkins
To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.
You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
— Robert Browning
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.
— Rip Torn
If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too.
I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist.
My religion is very important to me.
— Rick Scott
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
— Richard Rohr
Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.
— Richard Mentor Johnson
Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.
— Richard John Neuhaus
Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.
I grew up with the idea that someone might hate you if they knew what religion you were; being afraid to open my mouth because my accent might make people think something about me. Or even if they didn't, would they understand me?
— Richard Dormer
Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.
People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.
The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't.
It is immoral to brand children with religion. 'This is a Catholic child.' 'That is a Muslim child.' I want everyone to flinch when they hear such a phrase, just as they would if they heard, 'That is a Marxist child.'
It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.
— Robert Bork
If everyone's on the same page, doesn't matter what race, what background, what religion you are, if everyone comes together like a good, solid football team, baseball team... that's how you win games. It's easy.
— Rob Gronkowski
I'm Miss USA, not Miss Religion USA.
— Rima Fakih
Honestly, I never needed a mask to go onstage. It was me who was there, and it was always what I felt, based on what I had learned at home, in my religion, and from society. I clung to that: 'This is me, it has to be me.' And if I had an encounter with someone of the same sex, I looked away.
I don't know what Trump has to do to lose his supporters. It's like a religion. He's a school bully.
— Ricky Gervais
I love it when the left and when the president say, 'Don't try to impose your values on us, you folks who hold your Bibles in your hand and cling to your guns.' They have values too. Our values are based on religion, based on life. Their values are based on a religion of self.
— Rick Santorum
We are not going to be keeping a registry of Muslims in America, we are not going to be deporting Muslims, we are not going to be barring people from coming into our country because of their religion.
— Richard Painter
The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.
Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
The Muslim Prophet Mohammed was a big believer in charity and firmly established helping those in need as a basis of the religion.
Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that.
If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind.
To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.
