• "We are punished by our sins, not for them." - Elbert Hubbard Tweet
• "Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem." - Karen Armstrong Tweet
• "Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion." - Gary Ross Tweet
• "Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind." - Clive Bell Tweet
• "The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals." - Jonathan Lethem Tweet
• "A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion." - Francis Bacon Tweet
• "The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion." - Michael Behe Tweet
• "Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so." - Muhammad Iqbal Tweet
• "We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure." - Shirin Ebadi Tweet
• "Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic." - Thomas Szasz Tweet