No Religion Quotes

The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.

I profess the religion of love, Love is my religion and my faith. My mother is love My father is love My prophet is love My God is love I am a child of love I have come only to speak of love.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.

The church that does not evangelize will fossilize.

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.

Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.

Religion is the retarded stepchild of philosophy.

God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.

Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.

Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.

The universe is a single atom: the convergence of science and spirituality.

All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia.

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.

Since my life as a prisoner has begun I have heard the teachings of the white man's religion, and in many respects believe it to be better than the religion of my fathers

I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.

There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.

I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children.

Prayer is the core of the day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse.

In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?

And yet when you take Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, whatever, their combined killings in the name of religion -- well, that would be zero.

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

I have tried reading the Bible but that's a tough read there. I watch a lot of religious documentaries. I have a keen interest in religion for someone who's not religious.

Some people say that we here have no freedom of religion, ... In reality, the people in that country are the ones who were forced to embrace a religion.

Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

The only science that gives purpose to every other science is the science of religion - the science of our happy relationship with, and our providential dependence on God and our neighbor.

Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.