Quotes About Religion

Art is my God, Music is my religion.

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.

If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

Religion is the retarded stepchild of philosophy.

Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.

Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia.

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

Since my life as a prisoner has begun I have heard the teachings of the white man's religion, and in many respects believe it to be better than the religion of my fathers

I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.

There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.

I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

And yet when you take Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, whatever, their combined killings in the name of religion -- well, that would be zero.

Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.

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?

I have tried reading the Bible but that's a tough read there. I watch a lot of religious documentaries. I have a keen interest in religion for someone who's not religious.