Religion Quotes - Page 44

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

Hurting people is my business.

As we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe. This was first pointed out by St. Augustine. When asked: What did God do before he created the universe? Augustine didn't reply: He was preparing Hell for people who asked such questions. Instead, he said that time was a property of the universe that God created, and that time did not exist before the beginning of the universe.

If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.

To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.

God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and afterwards, to prove my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. ... From that day to this I have thought of myself as a wholly secular person.

All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, - never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth.

As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my mind there is no evidence that God exists - that this world is governed by a being of infinite goodness, wisdom and power, but I do not pretend to know.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at.

Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly.

Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

If you want to know why you were jplaced on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.

It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion.

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic.

Christians and non-Christians have something in common. Were both uptight about evangelism.

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad.

The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture.

As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.

The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and social consequences of Galileo's doctrine. Its verdict against Galileo was rational and just.

A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.