Religion Quotes - Page 84

The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism

Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.

All it takes for America to become a theocracy is for nonbelievers to do nothing.

Impression minus expression leads to spiritual depression.

Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.

At its very core the story of Easter has nothing to do with angelic announcements or empty tombs. It has nothing to do with time periods, whether three days, forty days, or fifty days. It has nothing to do with resuscitated bodies that appear and disappear or that finally exit this world in a heavenly ascension.

This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.

The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

Won't you look down upon me Jesus, you've got to help me make a stand. You just got to see me through another day.

When indeed Religion is kindled into enthusiasm, its force like that of other passions is increased by the sympathy of a multitude. But enthusiasm is only a temporary state of Religion, and whilst it lasts will hardly be seen with pleasure at the helm. Even in its coolest state, it has been much oftener a motive to oppression than a restraint from it.

The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.

Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.

Which is the best religion? [...] The religion that brings you closest to God.

The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services.

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.

Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment.

People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.

Fear first created the gods.

All religions are branches of one big tree.

Reason is not one tool of thought among many, it is the entire toolbox. To advocate that reason be discarded in some circumstances is to advocate that thinking be discarded - which leaves one in the position of attempting to do a job after throwing away the required instrument.

The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are cognitively empty, and any attempt at proof is logically absurd.

The belief in eternal torment, still subscribed to by fundamentalist Christian denominations, undoubtedly ranks as the most vicious and reprehensible doctrine of classical Christianity. It has resulted in an incalculable amount of psychological torture, especially among children where it is employed as a terror tactic to prompt obedience.