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Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

All religions are, in some basic sense, irrational.

What I find is that we're all human beings and that it's all very similar, what we believe. At the bottom, there's really not that much difference between Christians and Muslims and Hindus and Buddhists. We all worship God.

I think Christianity is the same as Buddhism and Hinduism - whenever a religion begins to say that these are the things you have to do to be loved by God, you have a religion.

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

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.

A religion is not just a set of texts but the living beliefs and practices of its adherents.

All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.

Religions have a strong binding function and a cohesive element. They emphasize the primacy of the community as opposed to the individual, and they also help set one community apart from another that doesn't share their beliefs.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.