Religion, especially the Christian religion, has condemned woman to the life of an inferior, a slave. It has thwarted her nature and fettered her soul, yet the Christian religion has no greater supporter, none more devout, than woman. Indeed, it is safe to say that religion would have long ceased to be a factor in the lives of the people, if it were not for the support it receives from woman. The most ardent churchworkers, the most tireless missionaries the world over, are women, always sacrificing on the altar of the gods that have chained her spirit and enslaved her body.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
THERE are three great Book-religions-- Judaism, Christianity, and Mohammedanism. Other religions have their sacred writings, but they do not hold them in the same regard as do these three. Buddhism and Confucianism count their books rather records of their faith than rules for it, history rather than authoritative sources of belief. The three great Book-religions yield a measure of authority to their sacred books which would be utterly foreign to the thought of other faiths.英文原著 · 《A Study of Bible》
The mere fact that the English Bible contains a religion does not affect its standing as literature. Homer and Virgil are Greek and Roman classics, yet each of them contains a definite religion. You can build up the religious faith of the Greeks and Romans out of their great literature. So you can build up the religious faith of the Hebrews and the early Christians from the Old and New Testaments. "For fifteen centuries a Hebrew Book, the Bible, contained almost the whole literature and learning of a whole nation," while it was also the book of their religion.英文原著 · 《A Study of Bible》
GERALD. Mother, you believe in religion, and you brought me up to believe in it also. Well, surely your religion, the religion that you taught me when I was a boy, mother, must tell you that I am right. You know it, you feel it.英文原著 · 《A Woman of No Importance》
_The old-time religion, The old-time religion, The old-time religion-- It's good enough for me!_英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
Magic is nowadays condemned alike by science and by religion; it is both useless and impious. It is obsolete, and only practised by malign sorcerers in obscure holes and corners. Undoubtedly magic is neither religion nor science, but in all probability it is the spiritual protoplasm from which religion and science ultimately differentiated. As such the doctrine of evolution bids us scan it closely. Magic may be malign and private; nowadays it is apt to be both. But in early days magic was as much for good as for evil; it was publicly practised for the common weal.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
- I know. - If you need to talk about religion-- and you shouldn't talk about religion-- just say you're struggling.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
And I think if the religion of the bomber is important, then so's the religion of the guy who saved everyone's life.美剧 · 《The News Room》
And the Houston speech made a forceful argument for a firewall between religion, any religion, and government.美剧 · 《The News Room》
Now we may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, Now we may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us,演讲 · 《Atheism 2.0 ~ Alain de Botton》