Quotes About Religion

It's OK to be outspoken about your faith.

A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they'll do is say, 'You are as bad as the fundamentalist Christians.' And my answer is always, 'I hope so.'

The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.

Overall, we think religion is a good thing. I mean, if we were godless society, we would have many other problems; the communists found that out.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

Most people, they get overwhelmed by the religious stories, the nationalist stories, by the economic stories of the day, and take these stories to be the reality.

It's no accident that marketing professionals often describe it in military language: capturing market share, penetrating the customer base, defeating competitors. It can be declarative, propagandistic, uninvolving. But in its best moments it can also encapsulate a belief, a set of values, even a religion.

Among the gods, there is a dispute as to which one of them originally thought of Christianity; or, as they call it, the Great Leg Pull. Apollo has the best claim, but a sizeable minority support Pluto, ex-God of the Dead, on the grounds that he has a really sick sense of humour. How would it be, suggested the unidentified god, if first we tell them all to love their neighbour, pack in the killing and thieving, and be nice to each other. Then we let them start burning heretics.

Dar al Islam and the Dar al Harb, the House of Submission and the House of War.

No atheists in foxholes, they say. I think that, given the power of the Holy Spirit as manifested in the Glenlivet distillery, there shall soon be only good Roman Catholics afloat. Well . . . and perhaps the odd Presbyterian. Now if only I can find something suitable to bless for the benefit of Sinbad

We now find ourselves facing the Christian West's oldest and most steadfast opponent, Islam.

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore.

As the Iberian explorers made their way down the African coast—the Portuguese going around the Horn to East Asia, the Spaniards cutting west to the Americas—both powers had two main goals in mind: finding precious metals and planting sugarcane. (Oh, and spreading the word of God.) The

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.

God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?

The men stared with hatred, stared the way only Christians can hate, especially Mormons.

most religious people had given up their right to being human beings by claiming they had the God's truth and nobody else had any truth.

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

Most religions seem to have decided pretty early on 'You know, we've go to do take action about that sex thing'. Somehow India too forgot the age of the Kama Sutra, Tantra and erotic carvings on temple walls. Even the Hare Krishnas try to tell us that Krishna was only spiritually making love to hundreds of cow girls at a time.   Nowadays it works like this: no one ever tells you the first thing

There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk.