Quotes About Belief

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.

I don't believe in any religion apart from doing the will of God.

There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

Religion is a collective insanity.

The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs.

You don't need religion to have morals. If you can't decide right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.

To the man who prays habitually (not only when he feels like it-that is one of the snares of religion-but also when he does not feel like it) Christ is sure to make Himself real.

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.

If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist.

Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

Religion is the retarded stepchild of philosophy.

Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.

Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.