Quotes About Belief

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate.

I don't believe in heaven and hell. I don't know if I believe in God. All I know is that as an individual, I won't allow this life - the only thing I know to exist - to be wasted.

Atheism is an effect of that knowledge [a poll showed atheists knew more about religion than anyone else], not a lack of knowledge. I gave a bible to my daughter. That is how you make atheists.

We are not engaged in a complicated joke disguised as a religion. We are engaged in a religion disguised as a complicated joke.

When one guy sees an invisible man he's a nut case; ten people see him it's a cult; ten million people see him it's a respected religion.

All religions are true but none are literal.

There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

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

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.

The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

I regard belief as a form of brain damage.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

A religion without the Holy Ghost, though it had all the ordinances and all the doctrines of the New Testament, would certainly not be Christianity.

Never check your religion at the door. Not ever.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Well, obviously religion must come from inside.

The Bible says that the the Lord thy God is a jealous God. But if you are omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, and the creator of all that exists, of whom could you possibly be jealous?

History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.