Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.
The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.
It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.
All the different nations in the world despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life still have one thing in common and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
I think there's a difference between God and religion.
There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don't think my generation wants that. That's how it used to be.
There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.
First of all my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
Religion and philosophy philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.
I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.
The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human if one only interprets this correctly.
In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.