I don't know, religious medal?

Religious, yes.

'the year of our lord'

Now religions start from a very different place indeed.

A religious fit, they say.

Nonsense, says the religious world view.

If this weren't a Muslim family, we wouldn't be here.

I didn't know you were so religious.

It's only recently that we've strangely begun to forget it.

I mean, do you have some kind of religious or spiritual motivation, or...

We all, I think, believe in compassion.

Yet the question wouldn't let go of me.

Religious iconography.

I have a question for you

She's joined a violent cult.

Nothing to kill or die for

This is the pure religion.

And that's what religions do.

But there's no answer except in religious terms.

We can try to accommodate some aspect of tradition or religious ceremony, but we can't forfeit the most critical aspect of the investigation.

As Carl Sagan, another recently dead hero, put it,

He persecuted people for their religion.

What will that lead to?

But you left out one aspect of religion that a lot of people might say your agenda could borrow from, which is this sense that's actually probably the most important thing to anyone who's religious of spiritual experience, of some kind of connection with something that's bigger than you are.

Religion doesn't have a monopoly on that, but there are plenty of religious kooks.

And once we get rid of ego, then we're ready to see the Divine.

I'll just come across it.

Which God? Which Religion?

Are you religious, John?

I don't believe in religion.

The center will embody and sustain this new educational commitment.

And that is the spell that I want to break.

Now think about religions, think about organized religions.

And the means how does he do it?

And they don't really change much.

He's not greedy. He doesn't see skin color.

Why don't you spare me the sermon and get to why you're here?

God is is ness . God is spirit.

He has no religious mind.

So this is all some religious thing?

Religion has nothing to do with this.

Not so if you're adopting a religious mindset.

Where do we get these models? We get them from others.

But to organise the technology in such a way that it's accessible, without barriers to people, that is a very significant move forward.

But, after the fall of Communism, that was kind of holding it together, especially these religious differences, and these ethnic and religious differences broke it apart.