Quotes About Religion

Well you say that it's gospel, But I know that it's only church.

There ain't no devil there's just god when he's drunk

El Diablo hizo el mundo mientras Dios estaba durmiendo.

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

There ain't no such thing as the devil that's just god when he's drunk.

The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

A cult is a religion with no political power

All religions are a scam . . . except for yours of course.

The only faith that really matters is the one that you believe in.

You keep using that word "Born Again", I don't think it means what you think it means.

The question also had an ominous spiritual dimension. To which God would they submit? There was the one proclaimed by the Baptists who said they could no longer serve two masters, and that freedom was a birthright. And then there was the one of the Church of England who commanded them to obey their masters and serve in thankfulness and humility.

Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'

Nowadays, I don't believe in the Christian concept of a God who created people for the sole purpose of judging and punishing them. After all, if one of the commandments is "Thou shalt not kill," does that make God a hypocrite when he does things like flooding the world or destroying Sodom and Gomorrah?

Show me the bastard who come up with this notion that who's running the goddamn show is some grumpy, embittered, sexually frustrated old fart with a long white beard hiding like a gutless coward behind some puffed-up cloud and I'll slice his goddamn balls off.

There's a major fault in Western society. It makes room for only one god, and in only one gender. There's no balance, no co-existence, no partnership.

I mean, if Native languages have no gender, then why should we? And why, for that matter, should God?

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.

I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.

And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.