Quotes About Religion

According to believers like Craig who are unhappy with blunt reality, life needs to be more than it is, otherwise it is absurd, and since we can't possibly allow life to be absurd, then life must be more than it is! As an atheist, I think that is absurd.

How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgemental ghost?

If salvation is the cure, then atheism is the prevention.

It appears that in order to win favor in the eyes of the God of the Old Testament, you have to be an obedient and heartless ethnic cleanser. Otherwise, step aside.

Believe it or not, many Christians can make these statements with a straight face.

It could also be applied to the Moonies, Jehovah's Witnesses and many other successful religious movements. If smoke is evidence of fire, are they all true?

Faith Works' only tools were prayer, bible study and church attendance

Lord Jealous.

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Pat Robertson

When it comes to being eaten or slaughtered, the God of the Old Testament is egalitarian. Other than that, you are better off being born a male.

That was the birth of religion, a shameful covering to hide our true human nature and pretend that we don't know what we know.

There it is. That is the source of women's inequality in the Middle East, the Western world, and every country infected with biblical belief. In the New Testament, Paul (or someone pretending to be Paul) pounces on this pretext for patriarchy:

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National Association of Evangelicals)

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Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.

Well, science and religion are not competitors, they're two different languages trying to tell the same story. There's room in this world for both.

My friends, I am not saying I know for a fact that there is no God. All I am saying is that if there is a divine force behind the universe, it is laughing hysterically at the religions we've created in an attempt to define it.

It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.

Science and religion were not enemies, but rather allies - two different languages telling the same story, a story of symmetry and balance... heaven and hell, night and day, hot and cold, God and Satan. Both science and religion rejoiced in God's symmetry... the endless contest of ight and dark.

For the human brain," Edmond explained, "any answer is better than no answer. We feel enormous discomfort when faced with 'insufficient data,' and so our brains invent the data—offering us, at the very least, the illusion of order—creating myriad philosophies, mythologies, and religions to reassure us that there is indeed an order and structure to the unseen world.

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

Hardly. Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.