It may be that religion is dead and if it is we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

I've found a more personal pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

Religion doesn't play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don't think I've ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word 'Jew' or saying it myself.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God like Elvis has left the building.

But let's just say I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

After all enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.