More than this even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things while seeking only the material.

Indeed in view of its function religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.

I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because in a way both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed but their motivation is the same the wellspring is the same in both cases.

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That my friends that is true perversion.

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.