Quotes About Religion

9Debemos respetar la religión del otro, pero solo en el sentido y la misma extensión en que respetamos su teoría de que su mujer es la más guapa y sus niños los más listos.

Debemos respetar la religión del otro, pero solo en el sentido y la misma extensión en que respetamos su teoría de que su mujer es la más guapa y sus niños los más listos.

Sunday school: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.

Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian Businessman.

To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.

The worshiper is the father of the gods.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

In Mencken's view, "religion belongs to a very early stage of human development, and... its rapid decay in the world since the Reformation is evidence of genuine progress" ("The Ascent of Man").

The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.

What lay at the bottom of their savagery, of course, was their idiotic belief in Calvinism—beyond question the most brutal and barbaric theology ever subscribed to by mortal man, whether in or out of the African bush.

What Mencken most strongly objected to in religion was not the expression of nonsensical views—these could easily be combated by rebuttal from the other side—but the inveterate tendency of religion to seek the enforcement of its views by the power of the government.

The Catholics get rid of the difficulty by setting up an infallible Pope, and consenting formally to accept his verdicts, but the Protestants simply chase their own tails. By depriving revelation of all force and authority, they rob their so-called religion of every dignity. It becomes, in their hands, a mere romantic imposture, unsatisfying to the pious and unconvincing to the judicious.

Children born to-day may see the beginnings of a genuine state church in the Republic, with a hierarchy of live wires and a purely American theology. I regret that I am too old to wait for it, for if it comes it will be a lulu.

People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.

It would surprise no impartial observer if the motto, In God we trust, were one day expunged from the coins of the republic by the Junkers at Washington, and the far more appropriate word, Verboten, substituted. Nor would it astound any save the most romantic if, at the same time, the goddess of liberty were taken off the silver dollars to make room for a bas relief of a policeman in a spiked helmet.

I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.

Religion is at the core of a lot of Lovecraft's writing. Many of his stories focus around deities, sometimes taking on the role of aliens who are worshipped by humans as deities, who are either indifferent or actively hostile to humans. This is all particularly interesting as Lovecraft marked himself as either atheist or agnostic during his life.

West Greenland coast had encountered a singular tribe or cult of degenerate Esquimaux whose religion, a curious form of devil-worship