Quotes About Religion

Embracing paradox helped me discover that religion is a neurological disorder for which faith is the only cure.

When Bible-believing fundamentalist Reformed Protestants go on vacation in Roman Catholic Italy, surrounded by unbelievers, they must witness to the truth.

The paradox is that sometimes the less it makes sense, the better it works. And the less one knows about the "holy" people we follow, the better. One of the mysteries of human need is that religious leaders must become more than the sum of their fallible, sometimes awful, parts, because other people need them to be more. This does not make the religious leader a hypocrite; it just shows that the rest of us are desperate. So

fundamentalist attempts to describe it are self-defeating. Trying to nail down theological

and all fundamentalist attempts to describe it are self-defeating. Trying to nail down theological certainties is putting faith in our imagination rather than in God's. It is like me demanding an explanation from Lucy in that

evangelicalism is not not so much a religion as a series of fast-moving personality cults.

Fewer than 5 percent of Danes attend church. In godless Denmark, the national government funds a high quality education for all children, rich and poor alike, while in God-fearing America, education is funded through local property taxes, so neighborhood and income dictate a child's educational opportunities. Add in race and ethnicity factors to create a perfectly stratified school system segregated by educational opportunity.

Our tradition says that Jesus is God. Maybe we should act as if we think he is instead of worshipping a book.

Those of us raised in the Christian tradition need to choose to either see God in Jesus or to continue to let the Bible define God. Our tradition says that Jesus is God. Maybe we should act as if we think he is instead of worshipping a book. Maybe we should be brave enough to admit that we are compelled to either become blinded ideologues or we need to forthrightly pick and choose what we follow in the Bible. Most Christians do that anyway, many just don't admit it.

their official religious absolutes, the higher call was to ignore what the Bible said in favor of what they hoped it meant.

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

in the real world, religious life does not exist in a purely spiritual form. It is saturated with things.

Virgin Birth. Abiogenesis. Resurrection from the dead. Random mutations producing the raw material for new organs. Intelligent creation ex nihilo. Eternal matter. Eternal mind. Heaven. Multiverses. Speciation by unguided, natural selection. Hell. Natural DNA information generation. Adam. Panspermia. Angels. No immaterial soul. Miracles. Space aliens. God. No God."[11] That's how blogger Roddy Bullock began a post called, "Everyone Believes Something Unbelievable.

The God the new atheists reject is not the actual God of the Bible.

When Christianity was born, it was the only religion on the planet that had no sacred objects, no sacred persons, and no sacred spaces.'8 Although surrounded by Jewish synagogues and pagan temples, the early Christians were the only religious people on earth who did not erect sacred buildings for their worship.19 The Christian faith was born in homes, out in courtyards, and along roadsides.20

Religious people fear hell -- Spiritual people have walked thru it.

Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?

Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.

Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity

An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.

The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

If you wish to expel religion from our European civilization you can only do it through another system of doctrines, and from the outset this would take over all the psychological characteristics of religion, the same sanctity, rigidity, and intolerance, the same prohibition of thought in self-defense.