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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
The New York Times (3 December 1978) -
During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
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For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.
Cosmos (1980) -
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
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For me, it's about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It's where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that's very important to me.
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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
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From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
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Given the fact that most religions share basic values, it is most unfortunate that religious people can be played off against each other so easily. One possible reason for this may be that people do not know enough about other people's beliefs.
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God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.
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Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
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I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious - except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.
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I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God
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I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
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