Bonnie Hunt Quotes

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

Religion has nothing to do with spirituality.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

From a young kid, I was quite interested in religion.

Religion is all bunk.

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.

Over centuries, we have attached too many meanings to religion.

You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

All the religions are super funny to me.

On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

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 texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

I would say I have a complicated relationship with institutionalized religion.

Religion is an irrational construct.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

Religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.

As a child, the conversations that I liked to have with my friends - or with anyone, for that matter - were always about religion.

There's something called religion, and it was invented a long time ago by people who felt very out of control with their lives, who didn't know... why the sun always rose over the mountains.

You don't have to be a religious person to be affected by religion or a religious movement.

Religion is such an important part of so many people's lives, and I don't understand it at all.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.