Religious Quotes of Note

Religious Quotes of Note
God made me such that I cannot believe. Who are you to question God's wisdom? Unknown Faith is a belief in the absence of evidence, and is hereditary. Unknown Atheism is a non-prophet organization. Unknown What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. Christopher Hitchens Man is certainly stark mad: he cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen. Michel de Montaigne Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. Denis Diderot The absence of evidence does not imply the evidence of absence. Unknown The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr. Prophet Muhammad Humanity without religion is like a serial killer without a chainsaw. Unknown Could a being create the fifty billion galaxies, each with two hundred billion stars, then rejoice in the smell of burning goat flesh? Ron Patterson Ho! Ho! Ho! Religion must go. George Carlin You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend. Blaise Pascal Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. Philip K. Dick Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world? Epicurus Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity? Arthur C. Clarke How many omnipotent, omniscient, immortal and omnipresent Gods have died throughtout the history of our species. Where lies the graveyard of past Gods. Who tends to their mounds? Unknown Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Blaise Pascal To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. Thomas Paine We stand firm upon the bare proposition that God has spoken authoritatively and inerrantly in the pages of the Holy Scripture. Unknown I do not fear my death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slighest inconvenience from it." Mark Twain If God created the Universe, why is evidence of this creation so scant. He might have left Maxwell's equations in Egyptian hieroglyphs. The Ten Commandments might have been engraved on the moon. A hundred-kilometer crucifix could have been placed in Earth orbit. Why can't God spell out my name in the starfields? Why should God be so clear in the Bible and so obscure in the world of reality? Unknown Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. Seneca the Younger The church says 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 a shadow than in the church. Ferdinand Magellan Not only is there no god, but try getting a plumber on weekends. Woody Allen It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. Gloria Steinem Lighthouses are more helpful then churches. Benjamin Franklin Everybody can be considered an atheist in the sense that they reject every God except their own God. The true atheist merely rejects one more God. Richard Dawkins Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue into eternity. Thomas Paine We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Plato Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. Anonymous Christianity: The belief that some cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father, can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree. Anonymous To infer that you have greater morality because you believe in God and read the Bible is like an infering that you are more loving because you read Mein Kempt. Harold J. Wolfe, 2008 The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983) British columnist If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that? David Ben Gurion A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one. Richard K. Morgan Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities. Voltaire What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. Christopher Hitchens The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. Delos B. McKown Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish. Unknown Flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. Bill Maher A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there. H. L. Mencken Religion is the art of sugar coating a turd and selling it to you as doughnut. Pat Condell

God made me such that I cannot believe. Who are you to question God's wisdom?: Unknown
Faith is a belief in the absence of evidence, and is hereditary.: Unknown
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.: Unknown
What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.: Christopher Hitchens
Man is certainly stark mad: he cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen.: Michel de Montaigne
Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.: Denis Diderot
The absence of evidence does not imply the evidence of absence.: Unknown
The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr.: Prophet Muhammad
Humanity without religion is like a serial killer without a chainsaw.: Unknown
Could a being create the fifty billion galaxies, each with two hundred billion stars, then rejoice in the smell of burning goat flesh?: Ron Patterson
Ho! Ho! Ho! Religion must go.: George Carlin
You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.: Blaise Pascal
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.: Philip K. Dick
Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?: Epicurus
Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?: Arthur C. Clarke
How many omnipotent, omniscient, immortal and omnipresent Gods have died throughtout the history of our species. Where lies the graveyard of past Gods. Who tends to their mounds?: Unknown
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.: Blaise Pascal
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.: Thomas Paine
We stand firm upon the bare proposition that God has spoken authoritatively and inerrantly in the pages of the Holy Scripture.: Unknown
I do not fear my death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slighest inconvenience from it.": Mark Twain
If God created the Universe, why is evidence of this creation so scant. He might have left Maxwell's equations in Egyptian hieroglyphs. The Ten Commandments might have been engraved on the moon. A hundred-kilometer crucifix could have been placed in Earth orbit. Why can't God spell out my name in the starfields? Why should God be so clear in the Bible and so obscure in the world of reality?: Unknown
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.: Seneca the Younger
The church says 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 a shadow than in the church.: Ferdinand Magellan
Not only is there no god, but try getting a plumber on weekends.: Woody Allen
It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.: Gloria Steinem
Lighthouses are more helpful then churches.: Benjamin Franklin
Everybody can be considered an atheist in the sense that they reject every God except their own God. The true atheist merely rejects one more God.: Richard Dawkins
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue into eternity.: Thomas Paine
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.: Plato
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.: Anonymous
Christianity: The belief that some cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father, can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.: Anonymous
To infer that you have greater morality because you believe in God and read the Bible is like an infering that you are more loving because you read Mein Kempt.: Harold J. Wolfe, 2008
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use: Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983) British columnist
If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?: David Ben Gurion
A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.: Richard K. Morgan
Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.: Voltaire
What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.: Christopher Hitchens
The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.: Delos B. McKown
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.: Unknown
Flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative.: Bill Maher
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.: H. L. Mencken
Religion is the art of sugar coating a turd and selling it to you as doughnut.: Pat Condell