Quotes About Deception

In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.

Prophesying is lying professionally.

Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme.

Religion is a Snare and a Racket.

Satan's first strategy is to keep religion intellectual.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.

Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

Religion has what is EASILY the greatest bullshit story of all time.

If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.

Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.

A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.

Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?

Organized religions by their very natures are misleading.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

When one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things that one doesn't know.

Organised religion tries to control, so therefore must be lying.