Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
Of all the religions, I am most partial to Buddhism.
I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
While few religious leaders and scholars would doubt the commonalities that exist among the various religious groups, the followers of these religions unfortunately struggle in their effort to peacefully coexist.
I'm against any religion, and Communism and Nazism - they're both equally religions. They're just replacement gods.
I was raised Catholic, but then I discovered Buddhism, and I used to have a boyfriend who was a Scientologist, and they are all good religions that help people. As far as I'm concerned, you can have all three religions at once and it's okay!
My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.
It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.
Religions have always adopted rich symbolic languages to signify the different aspects of their respective forms of faith and mythology.
I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place.
The Omega Point Theory can be a solid foundation of support for all of the great human religions.
Art and literature are my surrogate religions.
In a television interview, I said that diversity in our children's books should include the adventures of disabled children, travellers and gipsies, LGBT teens, different cultures, classes, colours, religions. It shouldn't be a token gesture, nor do such stories need to be 'issue-based'.
All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.
Atheists do not seek to violently impose their non-belief onto others. They simply reject all gods inherent to the 10,000 religions known to mankind.
I have since wandered among men of many races and many religions.
Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories.