Quotes About Religion

Probably throughout history the worst things ever done in the world on a large scale by decent people have been done in the name of religion, and I do not think that has entirely ceased to be true at the present day.

Aesthetic thinking emerges at the neutral point between technics and religion, at the moment of the division of primitive magical unity: this is not a phase but, rather, a permanent reminder of the rupture of the unity of the magical mode of being and a search for a future unity.

Given that the shared understanding of truth has been central to language, religion and society, when we ignore small lies, we inflict damage on the larger truth. This is not holiness we're talking about, but wholeness and integrity.

I was raised a Roman Catholic, but it was the kind of domesticated Catholicism that focused mostly on the length of your skirt rather than, say, the depth of your penitential observance

why the G-d of the Hebrews

La ortodoxia de la razón idiotiza a la humanidad mucho más que cualquier religión. Karl Kraus

He thought that Abraham would never become a Christian once he had seen the Papal Court; but, since it was useless, he gave up trying to dissuade him.

You go to church to respect God, not the priest. By not going to church, you disrespect God, not the priest. - Don Camillo

ElocvenÈ›a, când nu e declamaÈ›ie de împrumut, e prisos de evlavie; aÈ™a c?, într-o epoc? de necredin??, elocvenÈ›a nu-È™i g?seÈ™te loc.

El triunfo de los dictadores es consecuencia de tres fracasos: de la filosofía, de la religión, del capitalismo democrático.

Para mí, Dios no ha muerto, porque nunca había estado vivo en mi ánima.

Clericalism: the habitual confusion between that which is of Caesar, and that of God.

To menace the freedom of thought, religion, and personal safety of other citizens is not long permitted by a nation of free men, for freedom is their dearest possession, dearer even than life itself.

Every time I saw Muslim masses bowed in prayer or the Catholic faithful gathered all I saw was fear. Moronically nodding Hasidim, paint-throwing Hindus, shimmying and jabbering Evangelicals, they were all scared shitless this was all there was. Even the Buddhists (whose crinkled tee-heeing lamas always made me want to slap them) were terrified of their own flesh and blood, needed some disembodied desire-free fairyland to shoot for.

There is no God. And that's His only Commandment.

So we went on what we now call "The Beck Family Church Tour" and man did we see some churches.

Men may make progress, but man never changes. Man loves power and money. No matter the skin color, religion or income level. These symbols of our nation make men drunk with power, who then justify their lust for more by claiming they are public servants.

Fight against those who (1) believe not in Allah, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, (4) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e., Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.*

At this time of great need for values such as goodness, virtue, and modesty, religion is increasingly targeted as the barrier instead of being embraced as a savior. This lie needs to be rejected---not by words, but by example.

It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?

the Dead Sea valley, at more than thirteen hundred feet below sea level, was tranquil. A desolate landscape, but strangely it was where Jack felt closest to God. Not that he was deeply religious. More spiritual.

I am reminded of the query made about man's inhumanity to man in the concentration camps. The question was asked: At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God? And the answer came: Where was man? For it was men alone who did this evil. Not God or religion or men acting in the name of God or religion. But simply men.

It is an incredible con job when you think of it, to believe something now in exchange for life after death. Even corporations with all their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

I began to see that for some, religion was just a form of politics you couldn't criticize.