It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants vengeful or milky sweet or scrupulously just and so on.

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever least of all to organized religion.

We establish no religion in this country nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness just as Greek drama had once done.

It is already clear after twenty years of socialism in Russia that if you do not provide your society with a new religion it will gradually revert to the old one.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

Every society and religion has rules for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists as in art of drawing the line somewhere.

We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.

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.

What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that on the one hand acknowledges the role of religion in society while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.