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Quotes, Sayings about Religion, Church, Spirituality, Atheism, Agnosticism'
There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and in every believer, itching to doubt. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
It is doubtless true that religion has been the world's psychiatrist throughout the centuries. ~Karl Menninger
The church is the great lost and found department. ~Robert Short
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
People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out
whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The
Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in
no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product
failure. ~Harvard Lamphoon, "Doon" (paraphrase)
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as
false, and by the rulers as useful. ~Seneca the Younger
No man treats a motor car as foolishly as he treats another human
being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying
behavior to sin, he does not say, "You are a wicked motorcar, and I
shall not give you any more petrol until you go." He attempts to
find out what is wrong and set it right. ~Bertrand Russell, Has
Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization?
Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the
real medicine. ~Austin O'Malley
The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from
Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell. ~Sean
Ningen
This is a little prayer dedicated to the separation of church and
state. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray in
schools they might as well have a nice prayer like this: Our Father
who art in heaven, and to the republic for which it stands, thy
kingdom come, one nation indivisible as in heaven, give us this day
as we forgive those who so proudly we hail. Crown thy good into
temptation but deliver us from the twilight's last gleaming. Amen
and Awomen. ~George Carlin
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a
crime to examine the laws of heat. ~John Morley
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is
the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. He is
the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his
throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of
the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to
happiness and heaven. ~Mark Twain
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a
lack of confidence. ~Doug McLeod
Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian
religion; in Constantinople, one who does. ~Ambrose Bierce
Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a
heartless world, and the soul of soul-less conditions. It is the
opium of the people. ~Karl Marx, "Contribution to the Critique of
Hegel's Philosophy of Right," 1884
There are three religious truths: 1) Jews do not recognize Jesus as
the Messiah. 2) Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader
of the Christian faith. 3) Baptists do not recognize each other in
the liquor store or at Hooters. ~Author Unknown
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he
would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of
the New, he would be insane. ~Robert G. Ingersoll
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
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in
philosophy only ridiculous. ~David Hume, Treatise of Human Nature,
1739
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to
Liberty. ~Thomas Jefferson
In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take
religion more seriously than the practitioners. ~Jonathon Miller
There were honest people long before there were Christians and there
are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no
Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are
Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would
have been even if Christianity did not exist. ~G.C. Lichtenberg
"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith,
and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man, "but the Babel
Fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so
therefore You don't. Q.E.D." "Oh, I hadn't thought of that," says
God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. ~Douglas Adams,
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will
be making gods by dozens. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few his precepts!
O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
~Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1757
There is a story, which is fairly well known, about when the
missionaries came to Africa. They had the Bible and we, the
natives, had the land. They said "Let us pray," and we dutifully
shut our eyes. When we opened them, why, they now had the land and
we had the Bible. ~Desmond M. Tutu, "Religious Human Rights and the
Bible"
An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: "If I did not
know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No," said the priest,
"not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Inuit earnestly,
"did you tell me?" ~Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is
no position on which people are so immovable as their religious
beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate
than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this
supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name
on one's behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions
that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious
clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into
following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these
religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they
threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both. I'm frankly
sick and tired of the political preachers across this country
telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must
believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And
from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral
beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must
endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some
God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the
Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of
the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all
Americans in the name of conservatism. ~Barry Goldwater
People who rely most on God rely least on themselves. ~Lemuel K.
Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows
anything about it, he shouldn't. ~George Bernard Shaw
God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with
respectability and air conditioning. ~Imamu Amiri Baraka
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a
resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to
physics or chemistry. ~H.L. Mencken
Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it. ~George
Bernard Shaw
The Bible is literature, not dogma. ~George Santayana
The act of bellringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions.
It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other
people. ~Ezra Pound
Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion. ~Robert
Green Ingersoll
How can the Church be received as a trustworthy guide in the
invisible, which falls into so many errors in the visible? ~John W.
Draper
The Theologian is an owl, sitting on an old dead branch in the tree
of human knowledge, and hooting the same old hoots that have been
hooted for hundreds and thousands of years, but he has never given a
hoot for progress. ~Emmet F. Fields
Geology shows that fossils are of different ages. Paleontology
shows a fossil sequence, the list of species represented changes
through time. Taxonomy shows biological relationships among
species. Evolution is the explanation that threads it all together.
Creationism is the practice of squeezing one's eyes shut and
wailing "Does not!" ~Author Unknown
We are not accountable for the sins of Adam. ~Robert G. Ingersoll
[The true Indian] sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as
a holy day, because to him all days are God's days. The first
American mingled with his pride a singular humility. Spiritual
arrogance was foreign to his nature and teaching. ~Ohiyesa of the
Santee Sioux (Charles Alexander Eastman)
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never
laughs. ~Ghose Aurobindo
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most
singular things in all literature. ~Alfred North Whitehead
Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite
aware of it. ~Soren Kierkegaard, Time, 16 December 1946
Christian fundamentalism: the doctrine that there is an absolutely
powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is
deeply and personally concerned about my sex life. ~Andrew Lias
Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals
that were its founders' than any other agency in the world.
~Richard Le Gallienne
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to
evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an
alternative to biological reproduction. ~Judith Hayes, In God We
Trust: But Which One?
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
~Voltaire
If by any possibility the existence of a power superior to, and
independent of, nature shall be demonstrated, there will then be
time enough to kneel. Until then, let us stand erect. ~Robert G.
Ingersoll, The Gods, 1872
Christianity is not a religion; it's an industry. ~Author Unknown
It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the
bones of the dead. ~Robert G. Ingersoll
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or
a dose of common sense. ~Chapman Cohen
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God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will
perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.
~Friedrich Neitzsche
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The
records do not show that Adam and Eve were married. ~Ed Howe
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
Instead of being born again, why not just grow up? ~Author Unknown
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a
religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.
~Author Unknown
They were allowed to stay there on one condition, and that is that
they didn't eat of the tree of knowledge. That has been the
condition of the Christian church from then until now. They haven't
eaten as yet, as a rule they do not. ~Clarence Darrow
God tells Adam and Eve not to eat of the fruit of the tree of
knowledge of good and evil. If this was the only way they could
understand the difference between good and evil, how could they have
known that it was wrong to disobey God and eat the fruit? ~Laurie
Lynn
Thousands have gone to heaven who never read one page of the Bible.
~Francis A. Baker
A theologian is a person who uses the word 'God' to hide his
ignorance. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And
Other Essays
The Bible may be the truth but it's not the whole truth and nothing
but the truth. ~Samuel Butler
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in
praise of intelligence. ~Bertrand Russell
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible
fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such
gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being
intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough. ~Aldous
Huxley
A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path
to atheism. ~Donald Morgan
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with
my legs. ~Frederick Douglass, escaped slave
Strange...a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet
preferred to make bad ones; who made them prize their bitter life,
yet stingily cut it short; mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness
multiplied seventy times seven and invented Hell; who mouths morals
to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes yet
commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to
shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of
honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally
with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave
to worship him! ~Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it
a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite. ~Sainte-Beuve,
Les Cahiers
Most men would kill the truth if truth would kill their religion.
~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays
It is the position of some theists that their right to freedom OF
religion is abridged when they are not allowed to violate the
rationalists' right to freedom FROM religion. ~James T. Green
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy
nailed to two pieces of wood. ~George Carlin
I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on
the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said 'Stop! don't
do it!' 'Why shouldn't I?' he said. I said, 'Well, there's so
much to live for!' He said, 'Like what?' I said, 'Well...are you
religious or atheist?' He said, 'Religious.' I said, 'Me too! Are
you Christian or Buddhist?' He said, 'Christian.' I said, 'Me
too! Are you Catholic or Protestant?' He said, 'Protestant.' I
said, 'Me too! Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?' He said,
'Baptist!' I said, 'Wow! Me too! Are you Baptist church of god or
Baptist church of the lord?' He said, 'Baptist church of god!' I
said, 'Me too! Are you original Baptist church of god, or are you
reformed Baptist church of god?' He said, 'Reformed Baptist church
of god!' I said, 'Me too! Are you reformed Baptist church of god,
reformation of 1879, or reformed Baptist church of god, reformation
of 1915?' He said, 'Reformed Baptist church of god, reformation of
1915!' I said, 'Die, heretic scum,' and pushed him off. ~Emo
Phillips
Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and
forged them into an organization that conquered the world. ~Bruce
Barton
If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No." ~Margaret
"Stevie" Smith
Give the church a place in the Constitution, let her touch once more
the sword of power, and the priceless fruit of all ages will turn to
ashes on the lips of men. ~Robert G. Ingersoll, Ingersoll's Works,
Vol. 1
The last Christian died on the cross. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Everyday people are straying away from the church and going back to
God. ~Lennie Bruce, The Essential Lennie Bruce, 1972
God wanted to have a holiday, so He asked St. Peter for suggestions
on where to go. "Why not go to Jupiter?" asked St. Peter. "No,
too much gravity, too much stomping around," said God. "Well, how
about Mercury?" "No, it's too hot there." "Okay," said St. Peter,
"what about Earth?" "No," said God, "They're such horrible gossips.
When I was there 2000 years ago, I had an affair with a Jewish
woman, and they're still talking about it." ~Author Unknown
The Virgin Mary was an unwed teenage mother. ~Author Unknown
Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.
~Author Unknown
Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and
rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance. ~John F.
Schumaker, Corruption of Reality, Unified Theory of Religion,
Hypnosis and Psychotherapy
We are punished by our sins, not for them. ~Elbert Hubbard
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
~G.K. Chesterton
We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God. . . .
Chief Joseph (1840 - 1904)
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of
women's emancipation.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of
nonviolence entered our struggle.
Martin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968)
The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have
seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.
Robert Green Ingersoll (attributing the quote as allegedly by Ferdinand Magellan)
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of church going.
Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must
be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.
Hugo LaFayette Black (1886 - 1971)
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish,
appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify?and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
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