Quotes About Religion

You've never seen a crucifix with a Jesus who wasn't almost naked. You've never seen a fat Jesus. Or a Jesus with body hair. Every crucifix you've ever seen, the Jesus could be shirtless and modeling designer jeans or men's cologne.

Where would Jesus be if no one ever wrote the gospels?

statues of saints in somebody else's religion. To me they're just rock shaped into glorified nobodies.

Churches in the outside world, my brother told me, were just the local stores that sold people lies made up in the distant factories of giant religions.

If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?

Making all effort resist absorption into American cult of the individual, traditional method entrenched oligarchy so maintain own power: Fracture citizen isolated into different religion, different race, different family. Label as rich cultural diversity. Cleave as unique until each citizen stand alone. Until each vote invested no value. Single citizen celebrated as special-in actual, remaining no power.

And if Christ had died from a barbiturate overdose, alone on the bathroom floor, would he be in heaven?

When it comes to choosing a savior, they won't settle for just a human being.

The mechanic says, If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?

En un mundo donde millones de personas creen que su deidad concibió un hijo mortal con una humana virgen, es asombrosa la poca imaginación que muestra la mayoría de la gente.

Elders of the Creedish church made celibacy sound as easy as choosing not to play basketball. Just say no.

Santa Claus is just a story, says Seth. He's just the opening band to God. There is no Santa Claus.

We dance past states of saints in somebody else's religion. To m they're just rock shaped into glorified nobodies.

La deidad superior ordena que todas las criaturas vivas sufran -consumidas por enfermedad o gritando con cobertura corporal de sangre-, y que luego llega un día en que todas tienen que morir. (…) Si un agente da patadas frecuentes a un perro… si golpea con bofetones de mano a la compañera reproductiva… si ese agente asesina con puñal a un compañero, eso imita la lección correcta de la deidad" (Comunicado 5º).

Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

Lecturing the assembled publicists and stylists, my mom says that if any aboriginal peoples or primitive tribe still does not celebrate her acting, that's only because those subjugated native cultures find themselves oppressed by an evil, fundamentalist form of religion. Their budding appreciation of her films is obviously being quashed by some devilish imam or patriarchal ayatollah or witch doctor.

praising God is just such a safe thing to do. You don't even have to give it any thought.

You can't keep the whole Bible balanced in your head. You wouldn't have room to remember your name.

Qué sería de Jesús si nadie hubiera escrito los Evangelios?

Già sono italiano, non posso essere anche cattolico! E' troppo!

The way you can move from city to city and always find a Catholic church, the same Mass said everywhere, no matter what foster place the kid was sent, he could always find the Internet. The truth was, if Christ had laughed on the cross, or spat on the Romans, if he'd done anything more than just suffer, the kid would've liked church a lot more.

The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.

Past the crucifix on the wall with the poor, scary man named Jesus who hangs there, bleeding.

Magic is the first and last religion of the world. It has the power to make us whole, to open our eyes to the Dominions and return us to ourselves. Everything that isn't us is also ourselves. We're joined to everything that was, is and will be. From one end of the Imajica to another. From the tiniest mote dancing over this flame to the Godhead Itself.