Quotes About Belief

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

When you legislate personal belief, you're in violation of freedom of religion.

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.

I hate religion. I think it's a neurological disorder.

Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which is the essence of tyranny.

. . . every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion.

We should not wonder at the success of communism, for so much of its success is rather that of religion.

There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument.

The true religion of America has always been America.

You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

For liberals, religion and politics mix as long as the results support their cause.

Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.

Fear first created the gods.

I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt.

Organised religion tries to control, so therefore must be lying.

There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.

If you're going to war over religion, now you're just getting into a fight over who has the better imaginary friend.

Animists are not so much people with a religion as people with a fundamentally religious way of looking at things.

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant.

There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith.

We need a new religion.