Quotes About Religion

Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of god a pretty good definition of insanity?

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets.

Civilization and Religion are incompatible" and "Faith is believing what you know isn't true.

You will find men like him in all the world's religions. They know that we represent reason and science, and, however confident they may be in their beliefs, they fear that we will overthrow their gods. Not necessarily through any deliberate act, but in a subtler fashion. Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets.

Atheism is unprovable, so uninteresting. However unlikely it is, we can never be certain that God once existed—and has now shot off to infinity, where no one can ever find him… Like Gautama Buddha, I take no position on this subject.

Belief in God is apparently a psychological arti-fact of mammalian reproduction.

harsh verdict of the great philosopher Lucretius: all religions were fundamentally immoral, because the superstitions they peddled wrought more evil than good.

Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the religion which Chance has given you has contributed to your peace of mind (and often, as Western medical science now reluctantly admits, to your physical well-being). Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is best of all to be sane and happy.

Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion.

Believe me, it gives us no pleasure to destroy men's faiths, but all the world's religions cannot be right, and they know it.

If humans could not be rid of religion, it was argued, then let them at least not be harmed by it.

Lucretius hit it on the nail when he said that religion was the by-product of fear—a reaction to a mysterious and often hostile universe.

Theists believe there's not more than one God; Deists that there is not less than one God.

he suffered from an incurable malady which, it seemed, attacked only homo sapiens among all the intelligent races of the universe. That disease was religious mania. Throughout

You will find men like him in all the world's religions. They know that we represent reason and science, and, however confident they may be in their beliefs, they fear that we will overthrow their gods.

I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me. I refer you particularly to the Beatles, 1956;

It's odd. Sol Invictus—he's such a contrast to the cool thinking of the theists.

but all the world's religions cannot be right, and they know it.

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but in a subtler fashion. Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as

religion was the by-product of fear—a reaction to a mysterious and often hostile universe.

Over the last few decades we've been close to an all-out conflict between Christianity and Islam. If you take a long view, it's absurd; both religions have deep common roots, and both are basically creeds of peace.

None knew who belonged to this ruthless society. The names of the participators in the deeds of blood and violence done under the name of religion were kept profoundly secret.

I tell you the truth - for a long, long time these farmers have worked like horses and cattle; and like horses and cattle they have died. The reason our religion has penetrated this territory like water flowing into dry earth is that it has given to this group of people a human warmth they never previously knew. For the first time they have met men who treated them like human beings. It was the human kindness and charity of the fathers that touched their hearts.