Quotes About Interpretation

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else's death.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

All religions are true but none are literal.

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan.

It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.

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

The Bible looks like it started out as a game of mad libs.

I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get him there by different routes.

Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body of knowledge open to rejection or confirmation.

If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion.

To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion.

Christianity is a myth that has been literalised.

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

Anthroposophie is not a religion but a tool for understanding of religions.

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'" -

Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.

One mans cult is another mans religion.