I've been reading Freud's The Future of an Illusion, where Freud makes the case that religion is a form of "wish fulfillment." … And so to “make helplessness tolerable” man invents God and religion not because they are true but because we wish them to be true. … We forget that Freud is the author of this portrait of religion that is widely espoused in our time.…
And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant … There are the enlightened few, like Barack Obama, and then there are the "little people" who are bitter and cling to "guns," "religion…
Ed Rendell, seeing that the Casey family’s Catholic religion and pro-life stance could be used in the heavily Democrat state to neutralize … Republican Santorum’s Catholic religion and pro-life position intervened.…
We are constantly reminded about the destructive consequences of religion -- intolerance, hatred, division, inquisitions, persecutions … There have been many awful consequences of religion. … are the deleterious consequences of secularism -- the terrible developments that have accompanied the breakdown of traditional religion…
Furniture magnate Mitchell Gold, who organized an NLGJA convention panel on religion reporting, said, “the single biggest [obstacle … ] to gays having equal rights in the country is religion.” … the work of the church in which she grew up and was baptized, underscores the notion that her world view is deeply impacted by religion…
The ostensible purpose of “Combating Defamation of Religion” – yet another inspiring name! … for Human Rights warning that such resolutions "are in direct violation of international law concerning the rights to freedom of religion … incompatible with any serious conception of free speech, that it substitutes instead “a subjective criterion that considers whether the religion…
All of a sudden, the national Democratic Party has found religion. … Is this really religion? Or is this more show biz from a political party known for its Hollywood connections? … I’m not really sure which is worse—being overtly hostile to religion, or playing the religious card in a hypocritical attempt to win…