I'm interested in the origins of the religious experience…

Zen is non-serious. Zen has a tremendous sense of humor. No other religion has evolved so much that it can have that sense of…

— Rajneesh

I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has been studying…

— Reza Aslan

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the…

— Christopher Hitchens

Perhaps the attempt to achieve grace by identification with the animals was the most sensitive thing which was tried in the whole bloody history…

— Gregory Bateson

The starting point is the recognition that throughout history, religion has been a cause of bloodshed, and it remains so today. Because religion has…

— John C. Danforth

“He (Abraham Lincoln) is one of the few men in history, our own history and all history, whose religion was great enough to bridge…

— Dean sperry

You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.

— Richard Dawkins

What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was…

— John Irving

“The history of religion is the history of appalling violence, slaughter and sexual abuses, rationalised by the fairy tales of religious delusions.”

— Peter B. Lockhart

A lot of religious belief - even the majority - involves making factual claims about the world which do come into conflict with science…

— Julian Baggini

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion…

— Alfred Rosenberg

“also review the general history of religion and how we saw a rapid acceleration of intellectual and social human progress only after religion’s influence…

— Alan Jeskin

I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Rejection is a universally embarrassing topic and 'Electra Heart' is my response to that. It is a frank album.

— Marina and the Diamonds

In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.

— John Charles Polanyi