Religion

Believe it, or not. Here are some proverbs and quotes about religion, beliefs and superstition.

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There is a growing movement called Humanism, which promotes a non-supernatural basis for meaning and ethics: good without God.
Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

There is in every village a torch – the teacher: and an extinguisher – the clergyman.
Victor Hugo

There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.
Stephen Hawking

There's the common veneration (not just by the religious) of faith, namely believing something without a good reason.
Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

They're fighting over which religion is the most peaceful.
(unknown author)

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire

Though God is almighty, he doesn't send rain from a clear sky.

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
Rowan Atkinson

True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don't have to be crazy in the medically certifiable sense in order to do massively crazy things.
Daniel Dennett

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar Wilde

We are each free to believe what we want, and it's my view that the simplest explanation is; there is no god.
Stephen Hawking

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
Sam Harris

What is the use of a God who does no miracles and answers no prayers?
(unknown author)

What is worse, tattoos or religion?
Minkukel

What kind of mind would do something as useless as inventing ghosts and bribing them for good weather?
Steven Pinker
Source: How the Mind Works

What was God doing before the divine creation?
Stephen Hawking

What would be the point of atheism in the absence of religion?
Frans de Waal

When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
Stephen Roberts

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
Robert M. Pirsig

Who knows most believes least.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg

You can worship a sardine's head if you believe in it.

You don't catch people's religions the way you catch their fleas.
Ken Follett
Source: The Pillars of the Earth


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