Quotes About Theology

The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist.

Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.

There can be nothing more abominable than religion.

I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.

All religions have been made by men.

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.

Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a cause which you understand not at all.

Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith.

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

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

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.

A mans religion will rise no higher than his concept of God.

Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.

Pope Francis said that atheists are still eligible to go to heaven. To return the favor, atheists said Popes are still eligible to go into a void of nothingness.