Quotes About Religion

Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me.

It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder.

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

One of Dawkins' major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion.

Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists — like the painting experts hated the painter — hate God because He does exist.

At the center of religion is love. I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love.

The unspoken conspiracy of all religions—and the Buddhism of Zen Buddhism is not an exception—is their seemingly irresistable inclination to make metaphysical what is not so, and then to organize into complexity what is inherently simple.

This, then, was the religion that I was raised with: veneration for human creativity and the power of ideas.

A primary role of traditional religion is deathist rationalization—that is, rationalizing the tragedy of death as a good thing.

Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies.

The problem with Israel was her compartmentalized religion. She was oblivious to the actual moral nature of her many compromises, "desensitized to desecration", as long as she kept up the outward rites of Israelite religion.

Spurred by necessity, women of the Revolution helped keep a torn society from falling apart. A single entry from the diary of Temperance Smith, the parson's wife from Connecticut, reveals how religion, politics, work, and family, thoroughly interwoven, enabled women to carry on: On

Americans in the 1770s were sharply divided according to religion, national origin, location, and even language. Scots Irish Presbyterians in North Carolina, English American Anglicans in Virginia, Dutch and German Mennonites in Pennsylvania, Scottish Highlander Catholics in New York, native-born Congregationalists in Massachusetts—each group had its own culture, its own beliefs, its own set of interests.

Studies have shown that convincing religious agents (have) to have just the right level of outlandishness. Also, the manifestation need(s) to have an emotional resonance in order for belief to set in. Religions use elaborate rituals to stir up people's emotions....

beneath it all, religion has always been the fuel that keeps the furnaces of intolerance and hatred burning. And it holds us back from better things, but mostly from coming to terms with the truth about who we've become, from embracing everything science has taught us and continues to teach us, from forcing us to make ourselves accountable for our own actions.

The problem with religion right now. It hasn't evolved. And instead of being open and looking for ways to be relevant in today's world, it's gone all defensive and protective and it's regressed into lowest-common-denominator sound bites - and fundamentalism.

Religion in (the US) is so focused on fighting science and these compelling atheist voices that your preachers have lost track of what religion is really about. In... - the Eastern Church - and in Eastern religions like Buddhism and Hinduism, religion isn't there to offer theories or explanation. We accept that the divine is unknowable.....for a lot of rational people..., it's become a choice. Fact or faith. Science or religion....You shouldn't have to choose.

We'll elect any bumbling fool, any champion of mediocrity to the highest office in the land as long as they have God as their running mate.

Over a billion people out there, worshipping these writings, accepting every word as God's own wisdom, slaughtering each other over them, and all of it without having the vaguest notion of where these scriptures really come from.

you can't reconcile religion with modern life, with all the knowledge we have, with science....

History's shown us time and again, that mixing religion and politics only brings destruction.

There are two billion Christians out there, Sean, and a lot of them think of the Bible as God's words. His actual words. They think the twenty-seven texts that make up the New Testament were handed down to us by God himself, to help us lead better lives and achieve eternal salvation. They don't realize that nothing could be farther from the truth and that what we call the Bible was actually

It was only with Christianity that the idea of what a person believed in started to matter, and matter a lot, because his or her eternal life suddenly depended on it.

We're still dancing to tunes created by men who thought that a thunderstorm was a sig of God's anger.