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"There are many, many discrepant views within the Shia theology about what's the proper role of religion in society or in the State, should it rule now, should it claim to govern people in the here and now, or should it wait until the Messiah, the 12th Imam, comes back and would it only be then appropriate for religious rule to bring about a world of universal justice and vindication."
"Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil"
"Most of the utopian community ideas actually are religious. They're based more on the idea of the monastery than the commune."
"My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them."
"My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd."
"I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me."
"The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious."
"I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you."
"To be quite honest, I'm not religious."
"I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight."
"Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject."
"I grew up around people, so I know 'em, and I do like playin' 'em. I'm not religious, but I am kind of a spiritual fanatic, so maybe I understand them in that way."
"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."
"God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free."
"There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden."
"I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose."
"Abe said, where do you want this killing done? God said, out on highway 61."
"I don't need your organization, I've moved your mountains and I've marked you cards, but Eden is burning. You better get ready for elimination or else your hearts must have the courage of the changing of the guard."
"I said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you're not him."
"God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is."
