You know some religious scholars believe that when faced with overwhelming temptation you should commit a small sin just to relieve the pressure a bit. - Bree Despain The rain's been racing earthwards as if with some religious or political fanaticism. The clouds have the look of dark internal bleeding. Surely you lot look up from Cosmo while this sort of thing's going on? Surely you take a Playstation break? - Glen Duncan The fact that some religious fanatics might support a theory doesn't invalidate it, anymore than the concurrence of UFO abduction cults invalidates the notion of extra-terrestrial life. - James P Hogan The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't. - Rosie Odonnell If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law....

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. - Dave Barry I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone. - Charles Darwin I think the thing that I admire about Rick Santorum is that he hasn't backed down or apologized one bit for his personal religious views, for standing up for social conservative values. - Michelle Malkin Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of KNOWING Jesus Christ personally and directly. When the religious views of others interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we become unconvicted and unpersuasive travel agents handing out brochures to places we have never visited. - Brennan Manning Besides the healthcare bill being unconstitutional and a great expansion of federal government, I think if it d...

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. - Edmund Burke Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there. - Hugh Hefner People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts. - Dorothy L Sayers Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. - William Butler Yeats

The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock? - P J Orourke

I like one hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. I hate pimples, baked potatoes, when my mother's mad, and religious holidays. - Judy Blume A sombrero fell out of the sky and landed on the main street of town in front of the mayor, his cousin, and a person out of work. The day was scrubbed clean by the desert air. The sky was blue. It was the blue of human eyes, waiting for something to happen. There was no reason for a sombrero to fall out of the sky. No airplane or helicopter was passing overhead and it was not a religious holiday. - Richard Brautigan I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say. - Bette Midler CALVIN: This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery? If the guy exists why doesn't he ever show himself and prove it? And if he doesn't exist what's the meaning of all this? HOBB...

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'. - Richard Dawkins [W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy. - Jared Diamond If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it. - Stephen Fry That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life. - David Hackworth The fact that some religious fanatics might support a theory doesn't invalidate it, anymore than the concurrence of UFO abduction cults invalidates the notion of extra-terrestrial life. - James P Hogan A smile flitted across War's mouth, hidden by her helmet. She had little ...

Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history -- the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre of "heathens," and other no less repulsive manifestations of Christian civilization in Europe and elsewhere -- modern man is filled with pride in the "progress" accomplished, in one line at least, since the end of the dark ages of religious fanaticism. - Savitri Devi Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism. - Jurgen Habermas Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma. - Jack Kevorkian Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be especially prevalent among those inclined by tempe...

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'. - Richard Dawkins Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history -- the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre of "heathens," and other no less repulsive manifestations of Christian civilization in Europe and elsewhere -- modern man is filled with pride in the "progress" accomplished, in one line at least, since the end of the dark ages of religious fanaticism. - Savitri Devi [W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy. - Jared Diamond If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it. - Stephen Fry She would always f...

The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do. - Richard Dawkins We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual accommodations we have made to faith itself. - Sam Harris

As interference of two beams of light can strengthen or weaken each other, then so does religious differences can be truly productive or a total setback. - Toba Beta I wanted to marry the first girl that I fell in love with, but there were religious differences. I was an agnostic and she was a Polycarbonate - Josh Stern You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting. - Ed Harris