Quotes About Religion

am saying their religion has made a state that does not halt injustice, but rather institutionalizes it. They feel superior to others who have different beliefs. They feel only they possess the right way.

El rasgo humano característico no es la conciencia sino el conformismo, y el resultado característico es la guerra religiosa. Otros animales luchan por el territorio o el alimento; los seres humanos, en cambio, son los únicos en el reino animal que luchan por sus creencias.

She'd never been religious. She hadn't allowed grief to send her crawling to the church.

Nothing irks some folks more than losing a God who is wrathful, angry, retributive and punishing. 

I have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template or an imperative to live life according to a prescribed set of beliefs. Just give others the room, within the laws of civil society, to believe or not believe whatever they like.

Preachers delivered sermons on the Constitution, pro and con.

young man who set out to study the Talmud, not because he had the slightest interest in God but because he was curious about its internal contradictions.

In his own job interview, Morey was reassured by Alexander's social fearlessness, and the spirit in which he operated. "He asked me, 'What religion are you?' I remember thinking, I don't think you're supposed to ask me that. I answered it vaguely, and I think I was saying my family were Episcopalians and Lutherans when he stops me and says, 'Just tell me you don't believe any of that shit.

There, a year later, at the age of thirteen, Danny made his final decision about God. "I still remember where I was—the street in Jerusalem. I remember thinking that I could imagine there was a God, but not one who cared whether or not I masturbate. I reached the conclusion that there was no God. That was the end of my religious life.

But what is your religion?" "I don't have one." "But you believe in God?" "No." He thinks this over. "Then I'm pretty sure they can't let you in.

I reached the conclusion that there was no God. That was the end of my religious life.

Yosef Tversky, the son of a rabbi, despised religion and loved Russian literature, and found a great deal of amusement in what came out of the mouths of his fellow human beings. His father had turned away from an early career in medicine, Amos explained to friends, because "he thought animals had more real pain than people and complained a lot less.

Pascal, Faith is God made sensible to the heart, then

By then the question of whether God exists left me cold. But the question of why people believe God exists I found really fascinating. I was not interested in right and wrong. But I was very interested in indignation. Now that's a psychologist!

Everyone has the right to believe whatever he or she wants. Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Pagans, atheitsts, and every other religion. People can follow whichever they choose. Even if you and I believe Christianity is the truth, we must allow others to choose their own beliefs. You can't force anyone to believe something they don't, anyway.

Religion was the creation of fear. Knowledge destroys fear. Without fear, religion can't survive.

Gods are but metaphors. said Orland Frank. As metaphors they might be very acceptable - but they should never be allowed to become beings in their own right.

A Holy War! What better than righteous piety to disguise over-reaching greed?

If there's one thing I can't abide it's fanatics of any kind, and religious ones are the worst of all.

Children are as badly mistreated in traditional Christian families as in any other. Conservative religious affiliation is "one of the greatest predictors of child abuse, more so than age, gender, social class, or size of residence.

We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just what it, in itself, is: a greater meaning in ourselves, in our lives, and in our grasp of the nature of things...a religion exists for us only if, like a piece of poetry, it carries us away. It is not in any sense a 'hypothesis.

Christianity sedulously fosters, and in a sense permanently satisfies, man's craving for mental dissatisfaction by offering him the comfort of a crucified God.

You go deep enough or far out enough in consciousness and you will bump into the sacred. It's not something we generate; it's something out there waiting to be discovered. And this reliably happens to nonbelievers as well as believers." Second, that, whether occasioned by drugs or other means, these experiences of mystical consciousness are in all likelihood the primal basis of religion.

Mysticism," he likes to say, "is the antidote to fundamentalism.