Religion Quotes
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The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
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Images have an advanced religion; they bury history.
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Yes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government. The test of those values is the Bible. Politicians who do not use the bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office.
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Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test...
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There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion.
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Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a new telescope with a 200-inch reflector and beyond; not religion, that persists, and changes from old credulities and world views to new thoughts of God and larger apprehensions of his meaning.
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You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?
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Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.
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Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder. Rain. The seasons. All those things. You learn to respect everything because you are everything. If you respect yourself, you respect all things.
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There is nothing in religion but fiction.
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The failure of the Reformation to capture France had left for Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of Germany and England moved leisurely in the lines of religious evolution, the mind of France leaped from the hot faith which had massacred the Huguenots to the cold hostility with which La Mettrie, Helvetius, Holbach, and Diderot turned upon the religion of the fathers.
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Some of those who crafted the Constitution had serious doubts about tax-supported clergy. James Madison, for example, wrote that such employment was a “palpable violation of equal rights as well as Constitutional principles” and a “national establishment” of religion.10 He suggested that if Congress wanted chaplains to discharge religious duties, members should pay for them from their own pockets. “How just would it be in its principle!” he proclaimed.
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Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.
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Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.
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Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.
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There are two things in the world that can never get together- religion & common sense.
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I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.
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A man of no religion, who dares use pain as a weapon, tainting it for mundane things.
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As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.
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Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.
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I see no light behind that terrible curtain. I do not think one religion better than another and I think the Christian religion has brought far more misery crime and suffering far more tyranny and evil than any other.
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Imagine ... Imagine no religion.
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For the uninitiated, “ectoplasm” is a ghostly kind of stuff that writers like Dennett are constantly accusing critics of materialism of believing in. It plays the same sort of straw-man role in his writings on the mind that Paley does in Dawkins’s writings on religion.
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Religion dies hard in the Irish.
