Quotes About Religion

In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.

What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical.

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people.

This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.

Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."

We have always been searching for home. It's in our art... our religion... everything.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

I think religion is a neurological disorder.

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the Church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.

I'm an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

I'm always going back to one thing - my family... It's my family, my religion, my fighters. Put them in any order you want.

If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.

What's the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don't change what's on the inside,were it really counts ?

It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.

Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.

It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.