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The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation.

In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going.

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.

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.