Quotes About Religion

Religion is a glorified system of control, or an oppressed system of liberation.

When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued with religious significance, and are thereby justified. "Hasidic Noir

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

Sökandet är den nya religionens lösen; finnandet är dess mål, dess krona, dess sälla lön.

One might say that Christianity's original answer to the question "What is the purpose of life?" was: the purpose of life is Sunday.

There is no god, and that's the simple truth. If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure it all out again.

Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.

Once you've condoned faith in general, you've condoned any crazy shit done because of faith.

It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.

even the Christian heaven is just real human hell. Add eternal to anything, even eating pussy while listening to Dylan, and you get hell.

Science is so important because it's a way to find truth, but the truth doesn't depend on it. Reality exists outside of humans. Religion does not.

Perhaps to protect me from the bright light of God. If there was a God, he or she was no good at its job. Apparently there was just too much to do, listening to the prayers of all those who actually mattered, the faithful, the pious, the deluded, the stupid.

From the dust of creeds outworn.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.

God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.

The being called God...bears every mark of a veil woven by philosophical conceit, to hide the ignorance of philosophers even from themselves. They borrow the threads of its texture from the anthropomorphism of the vulgar.

At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God's own heart?

If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, what doubts should we have concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses?

la Armada Invencible; ya saben, cañonazo va y ola viene y todo a tomar por saco, con aquel pulso fatal entre nuestro buen Rey Don Felipe Segundo y esa arpía pelirroja que se llamó Isabel de Inglaterra, amparo de protestantes, hideputas y piratas, más conocida por la Reina Virgen, aunque maldito si puede uno imaginarse virgen de qué

Contrary to a great number of priests and other godly types, queer does not mean castrated.

The god that you dispense with today, will come back as a demon tomorrow.

Joseph never worshipped any idol in Egypt, but maintained his faith in the God of Abraham.

Remember, Christ never broke the written instructions of God. He only broke the traditions of men