Quotes About Religion

We don't know Religion's death date but we know its birthday: The very night man experienced his first great fear of anything!

Your only real problem is mortality! No religion can solve this problem, but science can do!

they do him wrong who take God just in one particular way. They take the way rather than God' (Sermon 19).

The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation... but I hear that it's coming quickly.

Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.

I get all the criticism about religion, you know, Mr. Ortley. But the thing is, you can't take it away from people and not leave something else of substance. That's what your generation will be remembered for. Taking so much away and replacing it with so little of worth.

And then he got all religious on her. Very quickly. - The Piper's Son

A tradition that we'll never let go. A tradition that I probably will never let go of either, simply because like religion, culture is nailed into you so deep you can't escape it. No matter how far you run.

The dogma of religion is love, and love is obedience to creationism.

The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.

At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?

Archaeological, mythological and historical evidence all reveal that the female religion, far from naturally fading away, was the victim of centuries of continual persecution and suppression by the advocates of the newer religions which held male deities as supreme. And from these new religions came the creation myth of Adam and Eve and the tale of the loss of Paradise.

Among the Mediterraneans," wrote Seltman, "as a general rule society was built around the woman, even on the highest levels where descent was in the female line. A man became king or chieftain only by a formal marriage and his daughter, not his son, succeeded so that the next chieftain was the youth who married his daughter Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Until the northerners arrived, religion and custom were dominated by the female principle.

In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?

But you must still know to respect other people's faith.' 'Why? We don't respect any other delusion. We lock up people who believe they're Christ, yet we're supposed to humour those who believe in him.' 'By definition, faith is irrational: a belief you hold against the normal rules of evidence.' 'In which case I believe in Jedi

I'm not religious about God," Boon agreed, "I'm religious about Man." "We believe in average guys," said Watt. "What happens is, the system makes them all fuckheads." "And I want to try to snap them out of that," said Boon. "That's why I write these songs, OK?

The younger the Jews, statistics showed, the shallower their religious roots.

Christianity challenged Rome's most basic set of values. The peculiar, mysterious religion forced a distinction - between what it meant to be a Roman and what it meant to be a Christian. The church fathers were quite aware that they were Roman citizens, but they also understood that their faith in Christ transcended the political and social values of their day.

the Hiéron du Val d'Or was simultaneously Christian and "trans-Christian.

the Ordre de Sion was founded by Godfroi de Bouillon in 1090

the Temple of Solomon was founded in 1118.

The "treasure," he declared flatly, did not involve gold or precious stones. On the contrary, it consisted of "incontrovertible proof" that the Crucifixion was a fraud and that Jesus was alive as late as A.D. 45.

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

Haile Selassie I." One said that when he used the term, he literally meant "the power of the holy trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.