Quotes About Belief

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

When fanatics say, "Obey our religious laws even if you're not a believer," the immediate response must be to break whatever religious laws they are talking about.

Religionists have a perceived need, planted there as a part of the brainwashing they've received. They need no religion, but they think they do, because religion has convinced them of it.

Religion has no positive value.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. —SUSAN B. ANTHONY

If the Bible and other holy books were at all reliable sources of morality, good and bad religious people wouldn't both be able to point to their holy books as guidance and inspiration to support their positions.

Atheists seek truth; theists ignore it.

When religion demands you refrain from doing something otherwise benign, that's just a provocation to do it more.

Make no mistake, to a significant degree we are all victims of religion because we all have fewer rights because of it.

Fighting God is fighting a war for freedom of thought, which is the most important freedom we have.

Religion hurts people.

Ignorance of fact is not evidence for fiction.

Religion is a giant used car, and preachers have proverbial quotas.

The stuff in religion that you hate has no less of a basis in the source material than the stuff in religion you love.

We have fought long and hard to escape medieval superstition and I, for one, do not want to go back. —JAMES RANDI

There are more than four former Christians for every convert to Christianity •

The happiness equation, it seems, is to be stupid, unconscious, and a slave to God. Then God will love you and everything will be perfect. It's amazing how many people love that equation. It's basically the equation that rules the lives of dogs! If you want to keep your freedom then you must kill God! That's the only way. God must die so that God may live – the new God. To repeat, God is dead, long live the new God.

A vegan is actually talking about himself when he talks about animals. It's nothing to do with animals and is all about his personal psychology and issues. There are no vegan animals, that's for sure!

When Nietzsche said, "God is dead", he himself immediately replaced God with a new God, the Superman. Who would bother with Nietzsche's philosophy if he pronounced God dead and then hanged himself? Nietzsche immediately resurrected God, hence God was never dead. God is always ready to be re-expressed. It's not the concept of God that's wrong, it's the concept of the wrong God, wrongly defined and understood.

Superheroes are just Jesus Christ with a penchant for extreme violence (i.e., Jesus Christ perfected by the Second Amendment!). To enjoy a superhero movie, you already need to be ninety percent Christian in your basic worldview.

You against the world … Bet on the World. The world is never going to change for you. Unless you are a world-historic figure. Well, are you?

Conspiracy theories encourage the masses to believe in lurid nonsense and to denounce intellectuals, who are supposedly all in on the conspiracy and hard at work to deceive and enslave the people. But mediocrities, so we are to believe, can see through all intellectual bullshit … they know experts are idiots. Here we have the Dunning-Kruger effect in full flow, shining like the dumbest star in the sky, the one that hovered above that grubby stable in Bethlehem.

Like the Christian Second Coming, science's promissory materialism is never delivered, and, like the Second Coming, it will never be delivered, yet science's believers go on believing, just as Christian believers go on believing.

When a subject declares intellectual philosophy useless, you can be sure it won't be making any intellectual defense of its position.