Quotes About Religion

No, blasphemy only threatens those whose faith in their religion is weak

They [the Catholic Church] thought that slavery was perfectly fine and then they didn't. And what is the point of the Catholic Church if it says: 'Oh well, we couldn't know better because nobody else did.' THEN WHAT ARE YOU FOR?!

Faith," Bram Stoker once said, "is to be found more often in a theater than in a church.

It's almost October though, and horror is my religion. Can I not celebrate orthodoxly and honor my church's holy days?

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed. If you like, you can say the laws are the work of God, but that is more a definition of God than a proof of his existence.

St. Augustine accepted a date of about 5000 B.C. for the Creation of the universe according to the book of Genesis. (It is interesting that this is not so far from the end of the last Ice Age, about 10,000 B.C., which is when archaeologists tell us that civilization really began.)

Nowadays, science provides better and more consistent answers, but people will always cling to religion, because it gives comfort, and they do not trust or understand science.

A scientific law is not a scientific law if it only holds when some supernatural being decides to let things run and not intervene. In

In effect, God was confined to the areas that nineteenth-century science did not understand.

In 1992 the Roman Catholic Church finally acknowledged that it had been wrong to condemn Galileo.

The Catholic Church, on the other hand, seized on the big bang model and in 1951 officially pronounced it to be in accordance with the Bible.) There

These laws may have originally been decreed by God, but it appears that he has since left the universe to evolve according to them and does not now intervene in it.

Model Ptolemeus diterima di gereja Kristen sebagai gambaran alam semesta yang sesuai dengan Kitab Suci, karena punya kelebihan yaitu menyisakan banyak ruang di luar lingkaran bintang-bintang tak bergerak untuk tempat surga dan neraka.

Beberapa orang merasa bahwa sains seharusnya hanya membahas bagian permulaan; mereka menganggap persoalan keadaan alam adalah urusan metafisika atau agama. Mereka berkata bahwa Tuhan yang Mahakuasa dapat memulai alam semesta dengan cara apa pun yang Dia mau.

People asked a computer, "Is there a God?" And the computer said, "There is now," and fused the plug.

Banyak orang tak suka gagasan bahwa waktu punya permulaan, barangkali karena terkesan melibatkan campur tangan Ilahi.

las personas siempre se aferrarán a la religión, porque proporciona consuelo, y porque no confían ni entienden la ciencia.

Science tries to record and explain the factual character of the natural world, whereas religion struggles with spiritual and ethical questions about the meaning and proper conduct of our lives. The facts of nature simply cannot dictate correct moral behavior or spiritual meaning.

Science and religion stand watch over different aspects of all our major flashpoints. May they do so in peace and reinforcement--and not like the men who served as a cannon fodder in World War I, dug into the trenches of a senseless and apparently interminable conflict, while lobbing bullets and canisters of poison gas at a supposed enemy, who, like any soldier, just wanted to get off the battlefield and on with a potentially productive and rewarding life.

As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

I don't believe in any actual thinking God that marks the fall of every bird in Australia or every bug in India, a God that records all of our sins in a big golden book and judges us when we die - I don't want to believe in a God who would deliberately create bad people and then deliberately send them to roast in a hell He created-but I believe there has to be something

Jesus watches from the wall, But his face is cold as stone, And if he loves me As she tells me Why do I feel so all alone?

Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.

Your man Jesus seems to me a bit of a son of a bitch when it comes to women,´Roland said. ´Was He ever married?´ The corners of Callahan's mouth quirked. ´No´ he said, ´but His girlfriend was a whore.´ ´Well,´ Roland said, ´that's a start.´