We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them within fifteen hundred years.
Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.
Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.
I respect and believe in all religions.
I grew up about 30 minutes north of Boston in a town that was a virtual melting pot - I was exposed to all different backgrounds, cultures, and religions, fueling my personal interests in global issues.
Across the globe, fundamentalists of all religions are on one side, and their attitudes towards women and towards female sexuality are almost identical.
I'm tolerant of all religions... I don't care if someone wants to go out there and worship the bark on a tree.
Our religions are much more similar than they are different.
Fundamentalism takes different forms in different religions, but there is one striking similarity in all forms of fundamentalist thought. Each wishes dearly to hold in check all varieties of 'modern' or 'decadent' thinking.
One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours.
All organized religions are basically the same.
All religions are, in some basic sense, irrational.
I don't belong to any religions, I really belong to God.
The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest.
Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.
Religions die slowly.
It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women.
All different religions have laws based on fear, the fear of going to hell.
All religions have always hated females.