Quotes About Religion

Christianity is a fine religion and I wish more Christians practiced it.

Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.

A man knows no more in religion than he loves and embraceth with the affections of his soul.

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

What religion is he of? Why, he is an Anythingarian.

What I don't like about the way the media portrays religion is that they seem to weaponize it and use it as a tool to divide people.

If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.

Your mind is your religion.

Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.

I do not believe in a religion that cannot wipe out the widow's tears or bring a piece of bread to the orphan's mouth.

That peculiarly American religion, President-worship.

If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.

The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs.

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.

Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.

Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--th e rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to "bend" their observations to fit in with it.

It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the great American principle of eternal separation between Church and State.

Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.