My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.
Orthodox Islam, like orthodox interpretations of the other Abrahamic faiths, views homosexuality as sinful and usually defines marriage as only ever a heterosexual union. This isn't to say that there is no debate on the subject.
I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.
I never agreed with the message of the Catholic Church - and still don't to this day.
It's not any huge secret that I'm an atheist.
Better to marry unhappily 100 times than to live happily forever in sin.
I'm spiritual, yes, but I don't think about Judgment Day. I don't think about an angry God.
I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it's partly from an atheist perspective because I'm an atheist, and I'm just not really interested in religious-based questions.
Scientology is one of the least homophobic religions. It's not very interested in the body at all.
If you ask people in England where does Tom Wright sit on the theological spectrum, they say, "Well he's an evangelical of course," as though, come on, get used to it.
He die one day, and then he go above of my head to live with your father." He weared the long hair, and after he died, the first day he come back here for to say hello to the peoples." He nice, the Jesus.
Sanctions are a very un-Christian weapon.
I know that what I see in every religious person is not something I want to teach my kids.
Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
I hold religious tendencies, but I'm not devout by any means.
Politicians should be judged on their actions, rather than necessarily their views on scripture.
The Founding Fathers were more deists. If you had to categorize them as anything. There was some sort of moving prime force. But it's an impersonal force. Some people call it Nature. Certainly not this personal god who you have a personal relationship with, who listens to your prayers and answers them, or doesn't. You know, not the silly stuff that most Americans believe because we're such a dumb nation.
I don't believe in God because certain reasons and arguments weigh more heavily in my mind than others, not because I have willfully decided to reject my creator, as many religious people seem to think. I could no more simply decide to believe in God than I could decide to like beetroot, just like that.
I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.
Do not allow your sorrow or your rage to become hostility toward people on the basis of their ethnicity or their religious views. That is unacceptable; it is out of bounds, and if you break the law, we will prosecute you for it.
I come from an almost wholly secular background and have no quarrel with religion.
MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.
I think the appropriate response for a physicist is: 'I do not find the concept of God very interesting, because I cannot test it.'
I think gay people deserve all the same rights as everybody else, it's just that marriage is specifically for a man and a woman.
I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
