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Religious View Quotes
“I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father’s religion, if they can find out what it is.”-Charles Lamb
“Rational arguments don’t usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be religious people.”-Doris Egan
“All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.” – Matthew Arnold
“Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence.”– Anonymous
“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.” – Susan B. Anthony
“The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.” – Delos B. McKown
“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.” – Francis Bacon
“Religion is the opiate of the masses.” – Karl Marx
“If we expect God to subscribe to one religion at the exclusion of all the others, then we should expect damnation as a matter of chance. This should give Christians pause when expounding their religious beliefs, but it does not.” – Sam Harris
“It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.” – Ludwig Feuerbach
“The finality of death is the coldest truth one must face. Religion makes the perfect distraction.” – Anonymous
“Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes people.” – Carlespie Mary Alice McKinney
“Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.” – Anonymous
“Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.” – Anonymous
“Faith means not wanting to know what is true.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“On the first day, man created God.” – Anonymous
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”-Albert Einstein
“I won’t take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.”-Carl Sandburg
“A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.”-James Feibleman
“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”-Dan Brown
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”-John Milton
“A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it.” – David Stevens
“Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a God superior to themselves. Most Gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.” – Robert A Heinlein
“It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.” – Mark Twain
“He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave.” – William Drummond
“Remember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family.” – Steven Colbert
“Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Gods dont kill people. People with Gods kill people.”-David Viaene
“If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.”-Alexander Dumas
“Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power but absolute power is corrupt only in the hands of the absolutely faithful.”-Anonymous
“When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.”-Sigmund Freud
“They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it’s a good thing.”-Steven Weinberg
“Fundamentalism, of any type, due to its prerequisite lack of intelligent thought, could prove to be the worst weapon of mass destruction, of all.”-David J. Constable
“To really be free, You need to be free in the mind.”-Alexander Loutsis
“If god is the alpha and the omega. The beginning and the end, knows what has passed and what is to come, like it states in the bible, why do people pray and think it will make any difference.”-Mark Fairclough
“Most religions prophecy the end of the world and then consistently work together to ensure that these prophecies come true.”-Anonymous
“Today’s religion will be the future’s mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever.”-Steven Crocker
“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. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.”-George Bernard Shaw
“Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further.”-Jack Pritchard
“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”-Isaac Asimov
“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”-Frank Lloyd Wright
“Not only is there no god, but try getting a plumber on weekends.”-Woody Allen
“Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.”-Edward Abbey
“We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.”-Gene Roddenberry
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”-Seneca the Younger
“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”-Steven Weinberg
“Religions are all alike – founded upon fables and mythologies.”-Thomas Jefferson
“For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction – faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.”-Thomas Edison
“I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.”-Doug McLeod
“The world holds two classes of men – intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.”-Abu’l Ala al Ma’arri
“Religion without science is blind.”-Albert Einstein
“It ain’t supposed to make sense; it’s faith. Faith is something that you believe that nobody in his right mind would believe.”-Archie Bunker
“Religion is simply a community of people who gather together on a regular basis to reassure each other that it is okay to continue believing in absurdities. But for me it is far better to see the world as it really exists, rather than persist in delusion, no matter how comforting that may seem.”-Unknown
“Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.”-Benjamin Franklin
“If there is a God, he is a malign thug.”-Mark Twain
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”-Edgar Allan Poe
“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”
– Dalai Lama
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
— Blaise Pascal.
“He who knows only his own faith knows no faith.
— Anonymous “In comes ideology and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.” — Doris Lessing
“Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.”- Voltaire
“You know you’ve created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do.” – Unknown
“Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.”- Mark Twain
“A faith which cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.”- Arthur C. Clarke
“Not necessarily religious but included anyway] “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” ― Mark Twain
“God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.”- Richard Feynman, awarded Nobel Prize in 1965.
“Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor – but they have few followers now.”- Sir Arthur C. Clarke
Inspirational Religious Quotes
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.”-Mother Teresa
“Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.”-Albert Einstein
“Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.”-Jane Austen
“I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.”- Douglas Adams
Funny Religious Quotes
“Jesus hardly made the greatest sacrifice. He knew he would be resurrected anyway.”-Anonymous
“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.”-Robert Frost
“The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”-Mark Twain
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”-Alice Walker
“Since the Bible and the church are obviously mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust them to tell us where we are going?”– Anonymous
“Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.” – Don Hirschberg
“God should be executed for crimes against humanity. –“ Bryan Emmanuel Gutierrez
“If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever.” – Woody Allen
Religious Quotes About Life
“The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.”-Matthew Arnold
“A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.” – Samuel Clemens
“Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.” – Anonymous
“Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.” – Richard Dawkins
“In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“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.”- Anonymous
Anti Religious Quotes
“You do not need the Bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate.” – Richard A. Weatherwax
“What’s “God”? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God’s the guy that ignores you.” – Steve Buscemi
“Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions.” – Frater Ravus
“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion, it is called religion.” – Robert Pirsig
“Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.” – Anonymous
“It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.” – George W. Foote
“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”- Stephen Roberts
“People ask me what I think about that woman priest thing. What, a woman priest? Women priests. Great, great. Now there’s priests of both sexes I don’t listen to.” – Bill Hicks
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” – Mark Twain
“Of all religions the Christian is without doubt the one which should inspire tolerance most, although up to now the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.” – Voltaire
“And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.” – Bertrand Russell
“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
“I’m a polyatheist – there are many gods I don’t believe in.” – Dan Fouts
“History teaches us that no other cause has brought more death than the word of god.”-Giulian Buzila
“Atheism is a non-prophet organization.”-George Carlin
“We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”-Richard Dawkins
“A believer states everything must have a creator but fail to say how he was created.”-Anonymous
“There are no atheists in foxholes” isn’t an argument against atheism, it’s an argument against foxholes.”-James Morrow
“Properly read, the bible is the most potent force for Atheism ever conceived.”-Isaac Asimov
“If all the Christians who have called other Christians “not really a Christian” were to vanish, there’d be no Christians left.”-Anonymous
“Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.”- Robert G. Ingersoll
“An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.”-John Buchan
“Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.”-Sam Harris
“I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.”-Clarence Darrow
“No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.”-Annie Wood Besant
“I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I’m Bad.”-Mike Fuhrman
“Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.”-Chapman Cohen
“The inspiration of the bible depends on the ignorance of the person who reads it.’-Robert G. Ingersoll
“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”-Richard Dawkins
“What has been Christianity’s fruit? Superstition, Bigotry, and Persecution.”-James Madison
“I have no need for religion, I have a conscience.”-Anonymous
“Man has always required an explanation for all of those things in the world he did not understand. If an explanation was not available, he created one.”-Jim Crawford
“The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.”-Penn and Teller
“Animals do not have gods, they are smarter than that.”-Ronnie Snow
“Atheists will celebrate life, while you’re in church celebrating death.”-Anonymous
