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Quotes About Religion

The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
~ George Washington
The propaganda machine is endless. Religion, media and schools spew intentional lies and misinformation about proper human-to-animal relationships.
~ Gary Yourofsky
Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their companions in life. I wish I could believe that too.
~ Otto von Bismarck
We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.
~ Ronald Reagan
Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.
~ Thomas Paine
Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion.
~ Eric Metaxas
Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.
~ Jean Cocteau
Religion is a mere question of geography.
~ Edward Gibbon
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.
~ G.K. Chesterton
For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.
~ Abdul Kalam
Religion is a Snare and a Racket.
~ Charles Taze Russell
An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.
~ Emily Carr
If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.
~ Voltaire
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
~ Thomas Paine
These people [the Christians] watched the Flintstones as if it were a documentary.
~ Lewis Black
If I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out eternal damnation to people with cheap stage monitors.
~ Tim Minchin
Satan's first strategy is to keep religion intellectual.
~ Rick Joyner
No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.
~ Richard Stallman
The plain fact is: religion must die for mankind to live.
~ Bill Maher
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.
~ Richard Dawkins
Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.
~ Jurgen Habermas