Quotes About Religion

Next time someone tells me they believe in God, I'll say 'Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?…' If they say 'Just God. I only believe in the one God,' I'll point out that they are nearly as atheistic as me. I don't believe in 2,870 gods, and they don't believe in 2,869.

Basically, you deny one less God than I do. You don't believe in 2,999 gods. And I don't believe in just one more.

If there is a God, why did he make me an atheist?

If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but if you believe in god, you're wrong.

Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally.

Religion's greatest trick wasn't making some people believe there was a God, it was telling you you shouldn't ever ridicule the ide, that it was sacred, to question this dogma> And of course it's not. As a scieentist,philosopher and comic that is something that is really important to me. NOTHING is sacrad.

Relax, man. If it's God you're talking about... he's been absent from the world of science since the very dawn of time.

Cody was a classic résumé-bloater, a braggart impresario who prospered by exploiting the gullibility of the American people, most of whom are so poorly read, so bamboozled by religion and the sensationalist, mogul-worshipping press, and so desperate for heroes, that they'll believe almost anything that a grand bullshitter like Cody shovels out.

That's my dogma. Just borrow any old god-damn religion that happens to be around when you need it and enjoy the pleasure of being with welcoming people. Today, on windy Rocky Ridge beneath a hard blue Wyoming sky, I was a Mormon.

Biographical info on Rita ] Born and raised in a Sephardic Jewish family in which culture and love of learning were categorical imperatives, she abandoned religion and embraced atheism. She devoted herself to Science, getting to the point of renouncing marriage for scientific research. ...Unlike other people, Rita Levi Montalcini was a complete human being.

My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.

Tears are God

Es curioso que la iglesia católica aliada de Hitler, de Franco, inventora de las cruzadas y de la Inquisición, protectora de los peores dictadores, grite que sin la religión, el mundo estaría peor.

The Age of Faith: and by 'faith' understand the denial of all scientific reasoning.

Locke has the idea that men were free to think of god in their own way, not as any religion told them to…

Philosophy started as Criticism of religious beliefs. By seeking logical reasons for the things in nature, mankind created the Science of philosophy…*

Even religion had to invent some kind of science for itself (Theology = The philosophy of divinity) To justify its existence.

The first thing religion invented was a faith in the "Beyond", the After Life …

Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.

Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day. He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain and name him, especially the one called "Christianity.

Christian' makes a poor adjective

As obvious as it is, then, Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day. He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain him, especially the one called 'Christianity'.

He said 'My kingdom is not of this world.' So did Bowie. It tapped into the whole Catholic idea of creating your own saints, finding icons of divinity in the mundane. As a religion, Bowieism didn't seem so different from Catholicism - the hemlines were just a little higher.