Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.' Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
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. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>