Quotes About Religion

Christians like faces; Muslims like words.

Human intellect has always evolved by rejecting outdated information in favor of new truths. This is how the species has evolved. In Darwinian terms, a religion that ignores scientific facts and refuses to change its beliefs is like a fish stranded in a slowly drying pond and refusing to flip to deeper water because it doesn't want to believe its world has changed.

Would you rather live in a world without science...or in a world without religion?

As anyone who read religious history could attest nothing cemented people's belief faster than a human being dying for his cause. Christ on the cross. The Kedoshim of Judaism. The Shahid of Islam. Martyrdom is at the heart of all religion . - Robert Langdon

La práctica de «comerse a dios», es decir, la Sagrada Comunión, proviene en cambio de los aztecas. Ni

Then let me ask you this famous question: would you rather live in a world without technology ... or in a world without religion? Would you rather live without medicine, electricity, transportation, and antibiotics ... or without zealots waging war over fictional take us an imaginary spirits? - Winston

For centuries, most of the devout had looked past vast amounts of scientific data and rational logic in defense of their faith.

Since the beginning of religious history, our species has been caught in a never-ending cross fire –atheists, Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, the faithful of all religions– and the only thing that unites us all is our deep longing for peace.

When the ancients experienced gaps in their understanding of the world around them, they filled those gaps with God.

Those who erase God…must be gods.

It seems we do a lot of fighting over God. Everyone has a different version of the truth.

From my perspective, however, there has never been an intellectual advancement that has not included God.

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

Or are we?" Langdon intoned overhead. "We consider ourselves modern rational individuals, and yet our species' most widespread religion includes a whole host of magical claims—humans inexplicably rising from the dead, miraculous virgin births, vengeful gods that send plagues and floods, mystical promises

Tragically, on account of religious dogma, millions of people believe they already know the answers to these big questions. And because not every religion offers the same answers, entire cultures end up warring over whose answers are correct, and which version of God's story is the One True Story.

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

Every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith — acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we can not prove. Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory, and exaggeration, from the early Egyptians through modern Sunday school. Metaphors are a way to help our minds process the unprocessible. The problems arise when we begin to believe literally in our own metaphors. - Robert Langdon

que me preocupa es que Leonardo Vetra prácticamente demostró la existencia de Dios, y sin embargo usted ha hecho que lo asesinen!

it is a messy process for a culture to abandon its deities. Spiritual beliefs are etched deeply on our psyches at a young age by those we love and trust most—our parents, our teachers, our religious leaders. Therefore, any religious shifts occur over generations, and not without great angst, and often bloodshed.

Die Allegorien der Religionen sind ins Alltagsbewusstsein eingegangen und helfen Millionen Menschen, mit ihrem Leben besser zurechtzukommen und tugendhafter, aufrichtiger und anständiger zu sein.

A lo largo de la historia, las personas más peligrosas siempre habían sido los hombres de Dios… sobre todo cuando sus dioses se veían amenazados

Anthropological data clearly showed that cultures practicing religions historically had outlived nonreligious cultures.

By a show of hands, Kirsch continued, how many of you believe in any of the following ancient gods: Apollo? Zeus? Vulcan? He paused, and then laughed. Not a single one of you? Okay, so it appears we are all atheists with respect to those gods. He paused. I simply choose to go one god further.

Let us imagine the reaction of humankind's future historians and anthropologists. With the benefit of perspective, will they look back on our religious beliefs and categorize them as the mythologies of an unenlightened time? Will they look at our gods as we look at Zeus? Will they collect our sacred scriptures and banish them to that dusty bookshelf of history?