The primary battle which religion must fight today is the battle to justify its own existence.

Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.

The primary battle which religion must fight today is the battle to justify its own existence.

One can be coerced to church, but not to worship.

while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

Everybody, whether or not he puts the question vocally, wants to know whether life has any meaning, what his relation is to 'whatever gods there be,' why he is here, what his destiny is, how sin and pain may be overcome, whether prayer matters, what lies beyond death for himself and his loved ones.

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.