I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>