Religion Quotes - Page 48

. . . I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can be discovered is a proposal to change masters. From being a slave of the papacy, the intellect was to become the serf of the Bible.

Unbelief is the greatest of sins.

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say 'charge it.' 'Put it on the slate.' The Savior will pay it. In this way, rascality is sold on credit, and the credit system in morals, as in business, breeds extravagance.

Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong.

Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.

I regard belief as a form of brain damage.

The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.

I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

Religion is the most powerful alternative to God.

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

There is an attitude in the culture that says that everybody is entitled to their opinion. You got to respect their opinion. No, you damn well haven't got to respect their opinion.

Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil.

Faith is our relation not to what we possess but to what possesses us.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

Your way of life is sinful and wrong," he said fiercely. Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who vilifies pleasure, relegates women to roles that are little more than servants and broodmares, though they are the backbone of your church, and seeks to control his worshippers through guilt and fear.

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

Religion does not blithely promise some sort of no-trouble, no-problem, no-poverty world; but rather a spirit, a power, an enthusiasm that endows everyone with the ability to overcome any and all of it.

You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there.

If you worry, you are a worrier because your mind is saturated with worry thoughts. To counteract these, mark every passage in your Bible that speaks of faith, hope, and courage.

Facts are true whether or not you believe them.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

There is no language of the holy. The sacred lies in the ordinary.