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My theory is if you have a religion, it’s a good one. Because some people don’t have any at all.
I don’t practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.
Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.
People don’t talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it’s not an incredibly safe place to do it.
That means that every human being – without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin – possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn’t alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.
Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it’s people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it’s also a cause for war and bloodshed.
What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music – participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.