Religion Quotes - Page 88

The God of Hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A God who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not loved - cursed, not worshiped. A heaven presided over by such a God must be below the lowest hell.

According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments.

There is an old, old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the Doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine of infant damnation. 'The Almighty,' he explained, 'finds it necessary to do things in His official and public capacity which in His private and personal capacity He deplores.

My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith.

They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.

There are many pitfalls in the marathon of life. But regardless of what you go through, you can count on God's sustaining grace.

During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating the ideas - which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't work, to eliminate it. This method became organized, of course, into science.

The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.

I great difficulty having any respect for a religion that has so little confidence in the truth of its beliefs that it feels reduced to using threats in order to propagate those beliefs.

In medieval times, the Church used to sell 'indulgences' for money. This amounted to paying for some number of days' remission from purgatory, and the Church literally (and with breathtaking presumption) issued signed certificates specifying the number of days off that had been purchased. . . . And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history. . . .

The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing.

In a post-modern culture we need an apologetic that is felt and seen because if post-moderns are not feeling it, they are not believing it.

I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.

Religion is not based on belief or faith: religion is based on awe, religion is based on wonder. Religion is based on the mysterious that is your surround. To feel it, to be aware of it, to see it, open your eyes and drop the dust of the ages. Clean your mirror! and see what beauty surrounds you, what tremendous grandeur goes on knocking at your doors. Why are you sitting with closed eyes? Why are you sitting with such long faces? Why can't you dance? and why can't you laugh?

Rock music is a vehicle of anti-religion

Help cure the world of the faith virus.

Faith: Pretending to know things you don't know.

It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.

In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

UFO (Unidentified Flying Object)sightings are not higher among amateur astronomers than they are in the general public. In fact, they're lower. You say, why is that so? Well, because we know what the hell we're looking at!

The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, so much the more has vital godliness declined.

[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.

If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.

The sacred is found boring by many who find the uncanny fascinating.