Quotes About Questioning

What was once easy became confused and hard, which brings us back to the mystic question, who is God?

Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

Strange is the man who practices his religion.

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.

Nothing draws people more quickly away from religion than an open mind.

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad.

In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it.

Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.

God save us from religion.

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.

For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.

I'm concerned about organized religion getting away with what it gets away with.

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

Revealed religion has no weight with me.