I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same. Jerry B. Jenkins
The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion. John Keegan
There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world. Tim Heidecker
Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself. Kary Mullis
As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism. Christopher Dawson
Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture. Christopher Dawson
The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it. James Anthony Froude
In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears. Paul Harris
If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England. Paul Harris
One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it. Paul Harris
For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment. Pierre de Coubertin
Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations. Jurgen Habermas
The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God. William Ames
I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth. Ram Dass
Billions of people don't practice a religion at all. Richard Gere
Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion. Tony Wilson
The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion. John Boyd Orr
It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different. John Shelby Spong
The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world. John Shelby Spong