Quotes About Religion

I didn't go to religion to make me happy. I always knew that a bottle of port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend Christianity. I am certain there must be a patent American article on the market which will suit you far better, but I can't give any advice on it.

HELL. A place where the Ten Commandments have a police force behind them.

Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacralizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to his freedom. He will become himself only when he is totally demysticized. He will not be truly free until he has killed the last god.

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.

Religion seems to have a way of making people abandon logic.

One day someone should start a religion based on the teachings of Jesus Christ.

The Christian Right is neither.

As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable

Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.

To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.

The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.

Religion is the solid basis of good morals therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

You couldn't shake my belief in Jesus any more than you could shake my in my mother or father. Because I have known them. If you told me hadn't had a mother and she was't really good and kind to me, I'd just smile and pity you because you never knew her. But I have, you know. I don't blame you, for you've never known Jesus.

Yet the real issue is not the danger of religion per se, but of dogmatic thinking.

Above all, we will see how intimately linked all these doctrinal struggles were to the politics of the great empires. Power invariably attracts religion, and religion attracts power. Theology is secondary.

Some reconstructionists argue that Christian clerics should be in charge of government, similar to Iran's theocracy, or rule by clerics.

But refusal to acknowledge even this minimalist state religion alongside one's own personal religion was taken as an act of rejection of the state, an act of rebellion.

Just as many Muslims believe that one day—simply due to its innate doctrinal superiority—Islam may ultimately become the religion of all mankind, so do reconstructionists believe that one day Christianity will be acknowledged by all and will thus come to dominate the world. Imposition by force is undesirable, unnecessary, and counterproductive to the longer goal; it will simply come.

For the state, theology is too important to be left to the theologians.

They had one all-important goal: to ensure that church and state maintained sole monopoly over doctrine.

However functional at the time, the idea of administering the state through religiously based communities strikes the contemporary observer as outmoded, the product of a different, more religious age. Yet, what then should the basis of identity be within the state? Ethnicity (language) or religion?

Jews also did not accept the idea that mankind can be saved through the sacrifice of Jesus, or by anyone else, but only through righteous living, as prescribed by Jewish Law.

Thus, in a world without Islam, the much harsher Jewish critique of Jesus, as expressed in Judaism, still stands.