Quotes About Religion

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education.

If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.

The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Christians always write to me threatening me with Hell. Strange how they think this vindicates them and their religion. Threats are the hallmark of a wicked creed.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.

Only religion can prevent democratic rule from developing into mob rule. A nation can prosper only as its citizens are religious, intelligent, capable of service and eager to render it.

Religious freedom does not mean freedom from religion.

I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong.

It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.

For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.

Christianity is a pestilent superstition.

The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

I tried the religion scam in Miami, so I know how hard that gig is. But, if you can get it to work, starting your own religion is a license to print money.

The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion.

We know nothing of religion here: we only think of Christ.

I believe in Islam. I am a Muslim and there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim, nothing wrong with the religion of Islam. It just teaches us to believe in Allah as the God.

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.