Quotes About Religion

Every single step toward the clarification of this argument has been opposed root and branch by the clergy.

One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge ( as well as for comfort, reassurance, and other infantile needs.)

It was never that difficult to see that religion was a cause of hatred and conflict, and that its maintenance depended upon ignorance and superstition

Tertullian put it, either disarmingly or annoyingly according to your taste. I believe it because it is absurd. It is impossible to quarrel seriously with such a view. If one must have faith in order to believe something, or believe in something, then the likelihood of that something having any truth or value is considerably diminished.

the gore-soaked landscape of the Old Testament.

British Imperialism has been engaged, during the last two hundred years, in conferring upon its victims the dubious benefits of the Bible, the Bottle and the Bomb. And of these three, I might perhaps venture to add, the Bomb has been infinitely the least noxious.

Look, look, master, here comes two religious caterpillars.

I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance.

BARABAS: For religion Hides many mischiefs from suspicion.

Adeline had come to Christianity the same way she had come to sex and smoking:through peer pressure.Thinking about her six kids and her smoker's hack, she wondered if perhaps peer pressure didn't always lead to the best habits.

Religion was supposed to be a matter of faith. Gods were not supposed to jump on your desk and snarl at you. They weren't supposed to sit in your office smoking cigarettes. God's didn't do anything. They were supposed to ignore you and let you suffer and die having never known whether your religion was a waste of time. Faith.

Oh, do fuck off. You Muslims and your aversion to drink. Fucking slaughter the greater part of the Western fucking world in Allah's name, but someone wants to toast to your health and suddenly it's all piety, prayer, throw out the pork, and let's put draperies around the women.

Soon a whole guild of low-priced shrine keepers around Europe named their own pope - Boldface the Relatively Shameless, Discount Pope of Prague. The price war was on [...] The Retail Pope would offer cheesy bacon toppings on the Host with communion and the Discount Pope would counter with topless nun night for midnight mass.

He didn't understand religion. It was like heroin or golf: He knew a lot of people did it, but he didn't understand why.

Nothing fucks up a religion like an intervention from a real God.

When your best friend is the son of God, you get tired of losing every argument.

What's a Mennonite?" Vance asked. "Amish with blenders.

Religion in Chinatown, as in most places, is based less on a cogent theology and more on a collection of random fears, superstitions, prejudices, forgotten customs, vestigial animism, and social control. Mrs. Ling, while a professed Buddhist of the Pure Land tradition, also kept waving cat charms, lucky coins, and put great faith in the good fortune of the color red...and was very much in favor of any tradition, superstition, or ritual that involved fireworks...

I don't remember any snow in all of the Torah. The Lord probably doesn't even go to places where it snows.

A little mucus is nothing against the power of the Lord.

El pecado de Onán. Derramar en el suelo la vieja semilla. Atar el camello. Quitarle el polvo al burro. Azotar al fariseo. Onanismo, el pecado que requiere de cientos de horas de práctica para ser dominado, o al menos eso era lo que yo me decía a mí mismo. Dios mató a Onán por derramar su semilla en el suelo (la semilla de Onán, no la de Dios).

Si tuvierais más dioses, no os preocuparía tanto que se enfadara solo uno.

Ach, leck mich doch. Ihr Mohammedaner mit eurem Widerwillen gegen den Trunk. Da wird der größte Teil der westlichen Scheißwelt in Allahs Namen abgeschlachtet, aber wenn mal jemand auf euer Wohl anstoßen möchte, ist die Rede plötzlich nur noch von Frommsein und Beten und kein Schweinefleisch und hängen wir unsere Frauen mit Gardinen zu.

soy un infiel descreído de Dios. Al menos, así voté en las últimas elecciones.