posted August 12, 2010 08:36 AM
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. ~Richard BurtonIsn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? ~Douglas Adams
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave. ~Louis Kronenberger
My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance. ~Mignon McLaughlin
If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstances. ~Theodore Dreiser
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated
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
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. ~Edgar Allen Poe
Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. ~C.C. Colton
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings. Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. ~Pearl S. Buck
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. ~Seneca
I didn't know I had a quarrel with him. ~Henry Thoreau in answer to the question, "Have you made your peace with God?"
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
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. ~Jonathan Swift
The churches must learn humility as well as teach it. ~George Bernard Shaw
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism. ~William James
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?
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. ~Pascal
If God doesn't like the way I live, let him tell me, not you. ~Author Unknown
A theologian is a person who uses the word 'God' to hide his ignorance. ~Lemuel K. Washburn
The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers and also the chains. ~Karl Marx
Religion seems to have a way of making people abandon logic. ~Amanda Baxter
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. ~G.K. Chesterton
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. ~Bertrand Russell
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
To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms, but the devil slapped on the genitals. ~Don Schrader
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 Heinlein, Notebooks of Lazarus Long
People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. ~Alfred North Whitehead
I prefer to think of them as the Ten Suggestions. ~Author Unknown
Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labors of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver. ~Robert G. Ingersoll
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. ~Chapman Cohen
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
God - but a word invoked to explain the world. ~Prat de Lamartine
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