Quotes About Religion

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

Drugs Are the Religion of the People ? The Only Hope is Dope.

Judaism was not a religion but a law.

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence

Reason bases its decisions on evidence available to everyone, and allows people to disagree when evidence is lacking. Religion will never do that.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

They have hijacked my religion.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

Is Islam a religion of peace? I'm sure for some of the practitioners, but it's been hijacked by people who have an ideology that wants to destroy western civilization, and they're barbarians.

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.

Darwinism is a pagan religion whose roots go back to the Sumerians and Ancient Egypt.

Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.

Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.

Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.

Religion makes kind people say unkind things: "I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children." They wouldn't do that if God didn't tell them to do so.

Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have used it.

God is too big for just one religion.

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.