Items tagged as 'Religion'

Items tagged as 'Religion'

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It doesn't annoy me that other people believe in God, but indoctrination annoys me a bit, and obviously religious fascism; it's the only thing that makes my blood boil, that and animal cruelty. The th
Redemption is my favourite thing. As an atheist, I think forgiveness is the greatest virtue. You have to be a very harsh person to not accept someone genuinely saying sorry.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if he didn't.
The doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind.
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a sham
Snakes and ladders: the game of organized religions.
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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 no
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits.
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.
A woman whom we truly love is a religion.
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible t
"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively simple question has stumped the elders of the church and
Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty of people who profess to be religious, even those who worship regu
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.
Man can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet he's potentially more vicious than any other. He is the only one who can be persuaded to hate millions of his own kind whom he has nev
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you
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.
Not far from the invention of fire must rank the invention of doubt.
Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?
Not thinking critically, I assumed that the "successful" prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me.
Men rarely (if ever) managed to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite to the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion.
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
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.
If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him.
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
To profess to be doing God's will is a form of megalomania.
Beliefs are collars to which leashes can be attached

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