Quotes About Religion

Incluso la creencia en Dios, ya que de ella se trata, no es verdaderamente una creencia completa sino que implica un conjunto de representaciones relativas a lo que viene después de la vida; en consecuencia, a algo sobrenatural, a una escatología; y es por ello que una religión que no anunciara nada a los hombres en lo concerniente a una vida ulterior no sería una verdadera religión.

Those who live by the labor of others are taught by religion to practice charity while on earth, thus offering them a very cheap way of justifying their entire existence as exploiters and selling them at a moderate price tickets to well-being in heaven. Religion is opium for the people. Religion is a sort of spiritual booze, in which the slaves of capital drown their human image, their demand for a life more or less worthy of man.

The human act of blind faith, whether in a god or man, is both noble and tragic. Tragic, because it demands the sacrifice of the very essence of our intellect - the ability to question.

Often there are two different reasons given for this natural desire to simplify. First is that we as humans have a very limited imagination and whichever medium we use to understand the world - be it science, religion, philosophy, or art -we will end up exploting the same limited set of ideas available to us.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

To believe in God is impossible - to not believe in Him is absurd

Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances; it is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

f there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

Here is my creed: I believe in one God, the Creator of the universe. That he governs it by his providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to him is in doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion. --Benjamin Franklin

One of the most important tasks of the Cultural Revolution affecting the wide masses is the task of systematically and unswervingly combating religion—the opium of the people.

They said that everything men do—whether it is organizing a government, establishing laws, supporting a particular moral code or practicing religion—is merely the result of his desire to protect whatever mode of production he is currently using to secure the necessities of life.

When Karl Marx was asked what his objective in life was, he said, "To dethrone God and destroy capitalism!