Quotes About Religion

I really believe in science. It is a faith. It is a reverence akin to religion. But as we always say, it's different from religion in that, as near as we can tell, it exists outside of us. It has an objective quality, the process of science.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

My mother went through a phase in her life where she... stopped being queer for religious reasons. I remember, my mother rebuking her sexuality... Queerness was not okay. She basically just said it wasn't okay for her... This is what, in my experience, religion can do to a queer person.

I believe an authentic Judaism would legislate total equality for queer people.

Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.

This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God, and damned for the glory of God, have occupied the mind of what we call the civilized world for many centuries.

Either Jesus had a father, or he didn't. The question is a scientific one, and scientific evidence, if any were available, would be used to settle it.

It's questionable whether I believe in God or Jesus but I do believe in a spiritual world and some kind of afterlife.

I grew up in the church and had always questioned what they were telling me.

I questioned the blind faith demanded by my religion, which was Islam.

Schubert, Franck, and Liszt were all Roman Catholics who questioned or doubted or lived in different ways, and religion was certainly part of all their lives.

I was religious probably until I was about eight but I always questioned stuff very early on.

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.

To be critical of television is almost like questioning the fact of God's existence.

I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it's partly from an atheist perspective because I'm an atheist, and I'm just not really interested in religious-based questions.

If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.

Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to keep quiet about their atheism.

I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.

I was an altar boy. I could probably quote the Bible from beginning to end.

I got none. I mean, I have no religion. I like the quote unquote 'Virgin Mary,' but no Catholicism.

My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.

How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.

As a child, the most important people in my life were my pet rabbit and Mary, mother of Jesus.

Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.