Religious Quotes

A woman has a right to an abortion. That’s a decision that’s up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.

I’m not superstitious.

Your desire to withdraw from everything when Allah has involved you in the world of means is a hidden appetite.

Cease to sin, because you will not meet Allah with anything [as valuable] as few sins.

Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.

I’ve wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.

Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.

I think that the religious and the military right wings are just two sides of the same coin if somebody uses God and religion and somebody uses country and security.

Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society – the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.

I was interested in the question of the power of religious organizations to effect public policy in a negative way.