There is no religion without love and people may talk as much as they like about their religion but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast it is all a sham.

People don't talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it's not an incredibly safe place to do it.

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about things that interest me: politics religion ecology and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart.

Well religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.

Practically speaking your religion is the story you tell about your life.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER.

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental mind-shaping driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.