Quotes About Religion

One of the greatest tragedies of our time, is this impression that has been created that science and religion have to be at war

Placing religious beliefs above law is a great recipe for destruction of entire human race.

People have been murdered over cartoons. End of moral analysis.

I am, perhaps, too intellectual, too modern, for my own comfort! How lovely it would be to sink into the warm comfort of established religion.

Religion is a distraction from true education.

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.

They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

The church and the scientific community are fighting at times a common enemy: the truth religion cannot deny and the positivist materialist scientist is unable to explain.

… between the irrational promoted in churches and the Darwinian pseudo-science taught in schools, a revolution in the way we understand reality is not only necessary but also long overdue.

It may be bizarre but in my opinion science offers a sure path to God and religion.

Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.

Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

We live in a culture in which condoms can be handed out in schools and Bibles can't. And I think that tells you everything you need to know about our society.

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.

It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society