Quotes About Religion

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the church of their owners, listen to selective dogma that kept them obedient and subservient.

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.

Many non-believers who have entered substance abuse programs have found themselves at odds with the religious overtones prevalent in the recovery industry.

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

At the end of the day, I always maintain you can substitute 'The Book of Mormon' for 'The Bible: The Musical' or 'The Quran: The Musical.'

You subtract Christianity from Huston Smith, and there is no Huston Smith left.

My parents decided - because they were not going to teach us anything Jewish at home - to send both me and my sister to a Jewish primary school. So I went to Kerem Primary School in Hampstead Garden Suburb. But, for me, that school really didn't work that well.

I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.

if they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it to the motherfuckers who need god we'd be 'aight

If they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it the motherfuckers who need god we'd be aight

The more extreme conservatives will embrace religion and nationalism to a higher degree.

Yes, God is real.

child. My fondest memories of times together were our Sunday mornings in church—just the two of us. When we were in God's sanctuary, we could safely open our hearts and let our souls be free and vulnerable. Church was our refuge, and Jesus, as my mother taught me, was our rock.

Sí señor, yo ya soy poquito cristiano, dijo él, porque ya saber yo un poquito mentir; otro día saber yo mucho mentir y seré yo mucho cristiano

Yoksul halk?n?n ya?ama sava??na gözlerini kapay?p cami minberinden cennet öyküleri say?klayanlar m? uygarl?k temsilcisi olacaklar?

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the State forever separate.

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar of money appropriated to their support no matter how raised, shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian school...Leave the matter of religion to the family circle, the church & the private school support[ed] entirely by private contribution. Keep the church and state forever separate.

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.