Quotes About Religion

No doubt the Phoenicians had a stone temple to honor Baal as well.

Cam smiled wryly. "Priests and lawyers. Not exactly the most popular members of society right now, are we?" "And to think, mothers used to dream of their children becoming lawyers or clergymen.

Well, Cam was telling me more about the Ark of the Covenant. Did you know it may have been a power source, some kind of capacitor?

there are no atheists in a fox hole. Your

Thomas Paine, the famous American patriot, wrote the following in an essay in 1805." He cleared his throat. "Masonry is the remains of the religion of the ancient Druids, who, like the priests of Heliopolis in Egypt and the Magi of Persia, were priests of the sun.

Lincoln managed to both respect religion and parody it

As he himself expressed it, his was the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths—the greatest in his belief in God and everyday miracles, the least in his acceptance of any church's creeds.

The presence of religion in science fiction is hardly surprising given its tendency to question limits and boundaries, and what could be more challenging than the limitation of mortality itself?

The devout are not spared.

The real reason people oppose marriage equality is religious in nature. Marriage equality is therefore not only a civil rights issue, but also a separation-of-church-and-state issue.

Religionists have a perceived need, planted there as a part of the brainwashing they've received. They need no religion, but they think they do, because religion has convinced them of it.

Religion serves no purpose except to funnel money and power away from those who need it and leaves in its wake nothing but broken promises and damaged families.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. —SUSAN B. ANTHONY

If the Bible and other holy books were at all reliable sources of morality, good and bad religious people wouldn't both be able to point to their holy books as guidance and inspiration to support their positions.

Nationwide, any child can pray to any god they wish at any time, so why do we need organized prayers in schools? To pressure those who don't want to pray into doing so, and for no other reason.

The true root of all evil is power, and both government and religion are effective tools for massing and maintaining power. When

Religion does not own activism.

When religion demands you refrain from doing something otherwise benign, that's just a provocation to do it more.

Christianity spurs hate, division, and murder as it has throughout history.

Religionists want religion's placement on the pedestal of respect preserved by any means. But religion deserves no respect. Rather, it has earned scorn, ridicule, and in-your-face opposition, as have its trappings.

I find it disturbing that religious folk are always suggesting or even demanding we be respectful of religion. Even if we disagree, we are told we must be nice and respect religion's place as equal or superior to the secular, rational position. But giving reverence to religion gives it strength and protects it from the criticism it deserves.

Make no mistake, to a significant degree we are all victims of religion because we all have fewer rights because of it.

Religion is a giant used car, and preachers have proverbial quotas.

The stuff in religion that you hate has no less of a basis in the source material than the stuff in religion you love.