Able Quote by Jenny Hval

At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.

— Luke Ford

At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or Buddhism's Four…

— Stephen Prothero

It is a culturally interesting (but also deeply depressing) fact that many religious claims seem to retain their emotional power for believers only if…

— Allen W. Wood

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“This book aims, in part, to help reverse the lamentable public retreat of religious liberals in recent decades. Yet, religious liberalism on the whole…

— Paul B. Rasor

“But the religious texts do describe—some have said, prescribe—the disfigurement of women who transgress sexually.23”

— Gaiutra Bahadur

Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.

— Alfred North Whitehead

A religious person is a desireless person.

— Rajneesh

People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what's not to love [there]?

— Bill Nye

Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty of people…

— John C. Danforth

Across the globe, fundamentalists of all religions are on one side, and their attitudes towards women and towards female sexuality are almost identical.

— Mona Eltahawy

“I have been to many religious services over the years. Each one I go to only reinforces my general impression that religions have much,…

— David Levithan