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Jihad is part of my religion. What you have to understand is that anyone who fights on behalf of Allah, when he dies, the first drop of blood that comes out, all of his sins will be forgiven.
In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign,does not declare,'That is mine!'.
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.
This one victorious group decided which books would be included in the New Testament and which groups would be excluded.
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things, and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
On the Catholic priesthood:
I refuse to consider anything said to me about saving my soul by any man who spends all his time with one hand on the Bible and his other hand thrust down the pants of an adolescent child. I don't want to hear it.
People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have the chance of becoming a prophet.
Both Testaments are full of pundits, prophets, disciples, favourite sons, Solomons, Isaiahs, Davids, Pauls, but my God, who besides Jesus really knew which end was up? Nobody .
The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all.
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.