1.   This is because Western religion has come from a Semitic origin where life was serious as befits a desert people.

2.   But religion does come into it.

3.   If religion did not come into it, experimentation would be much more widespread.

4.   In fact, we believe that all divine religions come from the same source.

5.   Most mainstream religions have come to an accommodation with them, though a vocal minority still rejects evolution and propounds biblically-derived creationist theories.

6.   Religion came slowly.

7.   Religion comes in only once the lines of conflict have been drawn, and the people who start the violence may not be religious at all.

8.   Religion has come to make people love each other, not to make people hate each other.

9.   Such was his knack of making religion come alive.

10.   The disparate religions came together on the family values issues, abortion in particular, Mitchell said.