Religion Quotes - Page 36

Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.

If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.

Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.

Scientific evidence for God's existence is being claimed today by theists, many of whom carry respectable scientific or philosophical credentials. He who is neither a she nor an it supposedly answers prayers and otherwise dramatically affects the outcome of events. If these consequences are as significant as believers say, then the effects should be detectable in properly controlled experiments.

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

Science is the true theology.

I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Millions of Germans had absolute faith in Hitler. Millions of Russians had faith in Stalin. Millions of Chinese had faith in Mao. Billions have had faith in imaginary gods.

Coincidence is God's way of performing miracles anonymously.

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.

There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is God's messenger.

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.

God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and is no sillier than any other theology.

THE MAJORITY of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all

The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity.

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition.

The Bible - the wisest document ever known in human existence, which defies the ravages of time and change because it contains the truth that cannot be changed or invalidated.

We are all one. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.