Quotes About Religion

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

Or should you mourn the rapist, which I guess Christians mourn the people who kill them too.

Stop attending churches and be real Christians.

Significaba que, si los judíos estuvieran en el poder en lugar de la Iglesia, ellos también utilizarían a Dios para destruir a los no creyentes? ¿Era inevitable que el poder religioso absoluto llevara aparejada una absoluta crueldad? «Ha-Rakhaman, Padre Nuestro del Cielo, único Dios de todos, ¿por qué permites que se cometan tantas matanzas en tu Nombre?»

Have you considered," Rob said slowly, "how each faith claims that it alone has God's heart and ear? We, you, and Islam—each vows it is the true religion. Can it be that we're all three wrong?" "Perhaps we're all three right," Mirdin said.

No seu primeiro domingo em Galesburg, o diretor e a Sra. Hammond o levaram à igreja presbiteriana, mas depois disso Xamã disse a eles que era congregacionista e, aos estudantes de religião, dizia que era presbiteriano, assim, todas as manhãs de domingo, ele podia passear livremente pela cidade.

And James was a believer in mystery. Not like his mum, who never met a phantasmagorical ideology she didn't embrace instantly and completely, but in the manner of Albert Einstein, who once said, "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

We don't believe in God." "Their god. I'm talking about ours." "We get a god?" "We get the God. And he is mighty and righteous and pissed.

The Torah, it should be noted, makes no clear reference to the afterlife whatsoever.

As with everything else about God, where you come down on the issue revolves around faith.

Albert Einstein, who once said, "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon.

Of all the gods nailed to the cross, Discord was the most beautiful.

Most of us are too close to the idea of progress to take cognizance either of the fact that this belief belongs only to a small part of recorded history, or of the other fact, that it represents a sharp break with our own religious professions and traditions.

It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.

Like the Maccabees, most people want the right to pray to God in their own way. This right is called freedom of religion. The spirit of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, is shared by all people who love freedom.

The Muslim Era of Hegira, which marks the flight of the Prophet from Mecca, corresponds to Friday, 16 July AD 622.

Judaism was a legal religion in the Roman Empire; Christianity was not until the first Christian emperor ascended the throne in the fourth century A.D. There were periodic persecutions of the Christians by the imperial state and local officials. The resulting martyrs, often upper-class women of unusual devotion, only served to draw more attention and converts to the Church.

Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.

So I cast my lot with him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, 'Before Abraham was born, I am' - and proved it.