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I think that the practice of religion allows one to discover emotional and psychological truth of a kind not available in the secular world.

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

Religion is often just tribalism: pride in a group one was born into, a group that is often believed to have 'God' on its side.

Religion, born of the earth's need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.

In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for laymen and another for clergymen. This distinction has never found its place in the life of the people of India. There, all of life is included in the word 'religion.'

Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.