Quotes About Debate

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion [Islam] is not Islamophobia.

If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but if you believe in god, you're wrong.

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

Reason bases its decisions on evidence available to everyone, and allows people to disagree when evidence is lacking. Religion will never do that.

There are no good reasons to believe in god.

Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.

When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.

A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.

I think religion is a neurological disorder.

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

I am a skeptic...Global warming has become a new religion.

The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.

If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.

Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge.

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We're not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it's called Darwinism .