Quotes About Truth

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

The person who thought there could be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or ignorant of religion.

Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.

A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.

Prophesying is lying professionally.

Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.

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

I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.

The propaganda machine is endless. Religion, media and schools spew intentional lies and misinformation about proper human-to-animal relationships.

Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion.

Religion is a Snare and a Racket.

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 Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.

Every other religion gives you directions on how to find God, but Jesus takes you to Him.

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

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

We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.

Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have used it.

The Church does not dictate the policies of the nation. The Church proclaims the truth of God to which all these policies must conform.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.