Quotes About Religion

Al-Qa'ida is the antithesis of the peace, tolerance and humanity that is at the heart of Islam.

We kill each other over which name to call the Nameless.

Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.

I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace. And America is constantly at war.

In reality, the monotheist texts preach neither peace, love nor tolerance. They are texts of hate.

Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.

If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner and no otherwise than as if it had happened in a fair or market.

Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of submission. Islam means submit.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies.

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known.

With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.

A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

Man can no more leave God out of his philosophies than he can live without his heart or see without his eyes.

The new religion without any secrets is philosophy. The old religion, said Aristotle, is necessary only for the uneducated; Confucius, Buddha, Voltaire and Lessing were of the same opinion.

The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

The only philosophy is that of language, the only religion is that of the word.

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.