Religion Quotes - Page 17

We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.

There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.

Christians have always tended to transform the Christian Revelation into a Christian religion. Christianity is said to be a religion like any other or, conversely, some Christians try to show that it is a better religion than the others. People attempt to take possession of God. Theology claims to explain everything, including the being of God. People tend to transform Christianity into a religion because the Christian faith obviously places people in an extremely uncomfortable position ­ that of freedom guided only by love and all in the context of God's radical demand that we be holy.

I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have attempted to prove that slavery came down from God out of heaven. They have become slaveholders and dealers in human flesh.

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended - to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is what should be. Now, if you're taught to live up to a what should be that never existed - only an occult superstition, no proof of this should be - then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that!

Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

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

Maybe Hell ain't a place meant for us to Burn, maybe Earth is Hell and just a place for us to Learn.

It's amazing how much you can get done if you don't worry about who gets the credit.

You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing.

Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.