Great Religion Quotes
The italicized comments are mine, the regular comments are the quotes.
-The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see.
Huang Po
Please try to look at the universe with a logical eye… your life will be so much happier
-Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
Benjamin Disraeli
-The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard Shaw
Facts are facts. Face them or live a life of cowardice.
-There’s a phrase we live by in America: “In God We Trust”. It’s right there where Jesus would want it: on our money. hehe… how true.
-If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve their own interests. If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them. Great stuff.
Baron D’Holbach, cited in Jonathan Miller. (2004). A Brief History of Disbelief [TV-Series].
Benjamin Franklin
-The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.
Benjamin Franklin, the incompatibility of faith and reason, Poor Richard’s Almanack (1758)
-Lighthouses are more helpful then churches.
But… but… i thought Ben Franklin was a great and wise American?? He doesn’t believe in God? Well, I guess he must be a moron. I cannot possibly be wrong. Right?!
If I thought the Jews killed God, I’d worship the Jews.
Bill Hicks
I wonder what Mel Gibson would say about this?
-Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
Isaac Asimov
So true. Ever heard of the problem of evil? Or read the story of Lot?
-A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
José Bergamín
What!!! Religion isn’t superstition, way too many people believe in it… right?
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
Arthur C. Clarke
Athiests are usually the most moral people I have met. They don’t follow arbitrary rules, they carefully think about what is best for man.
I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
Bill Maher
Most wars have been embarked upon because of religion (just listen to what leaders usually say.. for instance Bush right now speaks constantly of God and religion).
George Carlin- Religion easily has the best bullshit story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.
Hahahha… Kevin Gerald is the personification of this phenomenon.
Nietzche- Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?
You know my opinion..
Nietzche- Faith means not wanting to know what is true.
I thought faith was the belief in things unseen?? Who needs evidence? Or logic or science? I have faith!!!
Nietzche- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
They cannot be disproven.
George Carlin- Atheism: A non-prophet organization.
George Carlin- I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
Ghandi-I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
“It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.”
Mark Twain
So true… Read the bloody genocidal mania of the old testament or the creepy mumbo jumbo of Revelations.
man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
Mark Twain
ahhahhahahhaha
Mark Twain- What God lacks is convictions — stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something — not try to be everything.
Mark Twain- Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain, quoted from Curmudgeon-Online
Mark Twain- “In God We Trust.” I don’t believe it would sound any better if it were true.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx
Religion has been used to oppress humanity almost since man could walk upright. At first, he used it to explain things he couldn’t understand (the Sun God or Moon Goddess) and progressed to a crazy pantheon (Zeus and friends). Finally he has arrived at God as an image of the worst in himself- easy to anger, very jealous, bloody and evil.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.
Unknown
“Rely on Jesus to solve your problems. He will be there for you always.” Hmmm… is that why you have no job and live on Social Security?
-If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its glories, and He decides to deliver a message to humanity, He will not use, as His messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle.
Dave Barry
But Pat Robertson is so cool!
-Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
- Epicurus
Why has this logic been seen for millenia and people are still religious?
-The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
Eric Hoffer
I believe you would be referring to Plato 
-Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Edward Gibbon
Sad, but true.
-Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.
Robert Ingersoll
-You’re basically killing each other to see who’s got the better imaginary friend.
Richard Jeni
-Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.
Blaise Pascal
What better than having thoughtless sanction for wanton violence?
Christopher Hitchens
-What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.
Christopher Hitchens
-Christopher Hitchens On Jerry Falwell: If you gave Falwell an enema, he could be buried in a matchbox.
Careful about calling out the legendary Jerry Falwell… He may hex you!
iddu Krishnamurti
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Great thoughts by a great man.
Stephen Hawking
-Black holes would seem to suggest that God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Stephen Hawking, NATURE, 1975
-We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There’s not much personal about the laws of physics.
Voltaire
-If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.
Voltaire
-Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.
This is another one of those sad, but true comments.
Thomas Jefferson
-Shake off all fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God, because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
-We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore every form of philosophy, every form of theological concept, is merely an escape from the actual reality of what is. All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.
Rely on Thomas Jefferson, one of the founders of the most logical forms of government in human history, to support the reliance on evidence, reason and knowledge rather than blind faith.
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February 11th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
It is obvious you have no idea what you are talking about here. You cite logic and rationality for why you do not believe in God. If you use rationality, you cast doubt on God, but you also cast doubt on EVERYTHING. Science cannot make one certain of anything. By definition science is contingent. Religion is flawed. Why? Because humans are flawed and religion is built by humans. Why should science be any different?
You hate religion for being intolerant and persecuting anyone who disagrees. What are you doing here though? You are doing the same thing, persecuting religion for disagreeing with YOU. All you are doing is fighting intolerance with more intolerance.
February 11th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Mike, I appreciate your thoughtful comments, but I do not hate religion. Religion is just one of those sad parts of the world that I wish people would be more reasonable about. Much pain and suffering would not occur if people lost one of their major excuses for perpetrating such acts.
I agree with you that religion AND science (in their current incarnations) are both severely flawed. The difference, however, is that science is working to correct those flaws whereas religion sticks to its dogmas blindly.
Posting these quotes here was not meant to be intolerant or angry or hateful- I posted these quotes to try to create more discussion with my readers, many of whom are strongly religious and enjoy a good debate. Also, I am not intolerant of individuals- just intolerant of bad ideas (pyramid schemes, hate mongering, Social Security and Michael Jackson getting more plastic surgery) and actions (genocide, robbery and Bible thumping).
Also, I’m a bit confused at what your perspective is, do you mind sharing more?
February 14th, 2008 at 8:35 am
God is also in You. You have to be quiet to hear It.
The life in the Universe is God. The warmth in Your heart is God. The morals in Your acting is God.
The goodness among us is God.
God is not a human being, but the Great Spirit which leads us in freedom and charity.
Secler
February 14th, 2008 at 9:15 am
All hail Gaia.
April 28th, 2008 at 8:16 am
Transcendentality of morality
C. S. Lewis used a transcendental argument from morality in his book Mere Christianity that he referred to as the “Moral Law”.
1. Moral facts exist.
2. Moral facts are transcendental in nature.
3. The best explanation of there being transcendental moral facts is provided by theism.
4. Therefore the existence of moral facts provides good grounds for thinking theism is true.
Here, a transcendental fact is one that cannot be stated entirely in the language of the natural sciences, and that is true irrespective of human opinion. Theism provides the most intelligible explanation for such moral facts via the notion that rightness is one and the same property as the property of being commanded by God (wrongness consists in being forbidden by God).
In order for this argument to work, it should be shown that a non-theistic worldview cannot adequately account for transcendental normative facts. Historically, the burden of proof has been placed on the non-theist to demonstrate a naturalistic metaphysics for morals, as both proponents and opponents of the moral argument tend to agree that morality may be a phenomenon which shows that there is more to the real world than meets the physicalist’s eye.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_morality
Wrap your brain around Kant and CS Lewis if you can.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:51 am
Aahh religion . . . . I see it as a sad way of wasting someones time here on earth. A way of wasting your life basically. Its a way of going through life happy in the knowledge that you have an answer for everything and ultimately you dont even need to be afraid of dieing because youve been promised a life after death in some other place.
I’d like to know what religious people are expecting to do when they get to heaven. What have you all been promised? Eternity . . . just hanging out with the big guy? Youre looking forward to that?
Do you expect to keep memories of your time here on earth? Your memories are wired into your brain. Everything you are and everything you know and everything you remember is in your lump of meat called a brain. Are you taking it with you to heaven? Will you carry it in a bag? Do you ever think about realities like this?
Do you ever think?
November 6th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Godless is not synonymous with lawless. We atheist have our own morals too, you know.