Pastoral Resources

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.

Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.

So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.

It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.