We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.

In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.