Quotes About Religion

It is not religion that divides man. It is good and evil here on earth that divides us.

It is mankind that creates the differences, she'd told me last week. That does not mean it is not all the same God.

I never understood the war between our religions, or the war with Christianity. If there is one thing I learned from the time young Rose spent with us, it is that we are all speaking to the same God. It is not religion that divides man. It is good and evil here on earth that divides us.

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

Perhaps true faith is a form of insanity.

In other words: mix epic individualism with extreme religion; mix show business with everything else; let all that steep and simmer for a few centuries; run it through the anything-goes 1960s and the Internet age; the result is the America we inhabit today, where reality and fantasy are weirdly and dangerously blurred and commingled.

Marx famously called religion the opium of the people, and when Lenin founded the Soviet Union, he agreed, saying it was "used for the…stupefaction of the working class." But neither man had ever been to the United States, to see that for Americans it was as much or more a stimulant and hallucinogen than a stupefying opiate.

In other words, America was founded by a nutty religious cult.

For Northerners, victory had confirmed they were on God's side, fortifying their besetting smugness, and their religion resolved more and more into a pretty, reassuring background hum. Going to church meant sitting quietly and listening to lectures about virtue.

Compared to a decade ago, it's true, almost twice as many Americans say they don't believe in God. But consider the actual numbers: the total of agnostics and atheists has gone from extremely tiny (4 percent in 2007) to very tiny (7 percent in 2014). Those are percentages one otherwise finds in less-developed countries. If that is evidence for U.S. secularization, we are now just about as secular as, oh, Turkey.

Women are much more likely than men to say they're "spiritual," whereas two-thirds of people who call themselves agnostic or atheist are men. So male seculars go elsewhere to satisfy their need to believe in the untrue—for instance, men constitute large majorities of devoted believers in nonexistent conspiracies.

America has been a four-hundred-year-long natural experiment testing how religion develops with and without a powerful central organization. In other words, a big reason American Catholics are more reality-based than Protestants is because tenured grown-ups, from the Vatican on down, have consistently been in command, tamping down and pinching off undesirable offshoots.

Each side was sincerely convinced that it was carrying out God's orders. In the North and the South, soldiers and ministers and civilians believed and said again and again, "God is on our side." Sermons on both sides depicted the war as part of the divine plan, a holy battle on the way to Armageddon and Christ's reign.

mix epic individualism with extreme religion; mix show business with everything else; let all that steep and simmer for a few centuries; run it through the anything-goes 1960s and the Internet age; the result is the America we inhabit today, where reality and fantasy are weirdly and dangerously blurred and commingled.

The disagreements dividing Protestants from Catholics were about the internal consistency of the magical rules within their common fantasy scheme.

When somebody asked Alexander Hamilton why the Framers hadn't mentioned God in the Constitution, his answer was deadpan hilarious: "We forgot.

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!

All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own.

wondering if Allah really got personally involved in the butchering of children to secure a heroin production factory. When the day came, who would God be more angry with: men like him who acted with no regard to His will, or men like these who used Him to justify their own brutality and ambition?

The only thing unique about this offender was that his rationalization was cloaked in religion. "For the truly devout, they might provide rationale for

Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wants to make a million dollars, the the best way would be to start his own religion.

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

We seduce the prayer out of them. I never take advantage of that power, unlike some. We are their religion, and they know it

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.