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This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into (schools). -- Michael Newdow
The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld. -- Michael Newdow
In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse. -- Shimon Peres
I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld. -- Michael Newdow
If we are to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real. -- Oswald Chambers
When we start using religion as a bludgeon in politics, when we start questioning other people's faith, we start using religion to divide, instead of bring the country together, then I think we've got a problem. -- Barack Obama
The holy word of God is on everyone's lips...but...we see almost everyone presenting their own versions of God's word, with the sole purpose of using religion as a pretext for making others think as they do. -- Baruch Spinoza
You mean 'Injustice Sunday II', ... is using religion to alienate people rather than to bring people together. It has more to do with politics than with theology. I'm disappointed that clergy would be leading such a divisive call. -- Tim McDonald
[During the second Sudanese Civil War] what was actually killing us wasn't the Muslims, wasn't the Arabs. It was somebody sitting somewhere manipulating the system, and using religion to get what they want to get out of us, which is the oil, the diamond, the gold and the land. -- Emmanuel Jal
What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything? -- Abu Bakar Bashir
Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion. -- Daron Malakian
Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion. -- Stephen Hawking
Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power. -- Julian Casablancas
Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology. -- Reza Aslan
The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me. -- Lionel Blue
The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence. -- Moses Mendelssohn
Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion. -- Thurston Moore
The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion. -- Ernest Istook
And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs. -- Bernice Johnson Reagon
There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them. -- Michael Moore
There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques. -- Jean-Francois Cope
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction. -- Bertrand Russell
I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people. -- Peter Jennings
To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used. -- Richard Dawkins
Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch. -- Larry Flynt
There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds. -- John Henrik Clarke
It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed that, but it's got all the sort of terms that religions use... The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can't win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air. -- James Lovelock
Religion is using everything for God. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I don't see why religion and science can't cooperate. What's wrong with using a computer to count our blessings? -- Robert Orben
Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child. -- Leo Tolstoy
The Obamacare contraception mandate was never about freedom. It was always about pitting secularism against religion, and using the power of government to sponsor secularism. -- Ben Shapiro

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