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Quotes About Belief

Islam is more than a religion, it's much more than a religion, it's a way of life, it is a one party political system that has a very elaborate legal system that can put you to death if you leave it.
~ Reza Aslan
So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
~ Thomas A. Edison
In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.
~ Pierre Bayle
I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.
~ Richard Strauss
Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
~ Daniel Dennett
Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.
~ A.C. Grayling
Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Religion is the opiate of the people.
~ Karl Marx
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.
~ Mark Twain
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
~ James Kern Feibleman
I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam.
~ Malcolm X
To put into practice the teachings of our holy faith, it is not enough to convince ourselves that they are true; we must love them. Love united to faith makes us practice our religion.
~ Alphonsus Liguori
I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien.
~ George Clinton
According to the universal laws, the magician will form his own point of view about the universe which henceforth will be his true religion.
~ Franz Bardon
It's a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It's the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.
~ Ricky Gervais
Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones.
~ Ruth Hurmence Green
Atheism is the absence of religion. We don't really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.
~ Penn Jillette
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
~ Karl Barth
I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not.
~ Bronislaw Malinowski
If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.
~ Charles Simic
I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.
~ Dan Barker
Religion is a defense against the experience of God.
~ Carl Jung