Quotes About Open-mindedness

The person who knows only one religion does not know any religion.

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

Strange is the man who practices his religion.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Nothing draws people more quickly away from religion than an open mind.

Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .

I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion. . . . I have no place in my philosophy for such beliefs.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.

I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.

It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.

Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.

If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.

All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them.

Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.

I wasn't raised with a specific religion. I wasn't raised to judge people in any way.

All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.

If you ever meet anyone who tells you his or her religion can offer all the answers, run for the hills. Or at least hide your wallet.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.

I think that there are many different ways of getting and staying sober. Like religion, I just don't think that one way is the only way.

I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God

I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it's best comes with a big dose of doubt.