Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

I have a very deep religious belief.

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may and should be brought to that state of mind by all methods, not excluding violence.