#religious people

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. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#against #basic #beliefs #each #easily

The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

#most #people #religious #religious people

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope... It is not a reflection of all religious people. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#does #follow #gay #like #matter

I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#educated #fundamentalists #highly #i #including

Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?' ↗

— Tony Campolo

#catastrophe #died #god #inevitably #people

I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma. ↗

— Marcia Wallace

#blind #blind faith #buddhist #change #christian

The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#also #base #believe #claim #eternal

Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense. ↗

— Dan Savage

#ask #column #come #do unto others #every

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. ↗

— Dave Barry

#after #come #offending #people #problem

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. ↗

— William O. Douglas

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