Quotes About Perspective

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

If you equate God's judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.

Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

According to the universal laws, the magician will form his own point of view about the universe which henceforth will be his true religion.

What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.

I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not.

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

... religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches.

What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder.

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

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

A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .

If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.

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.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

How come when it's us, it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelette?

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing.