Believe it, or not. Here are some proverbs and quotes about religion, beliefs and superstition.
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Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.Mick Jagger
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion — several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.Mark Twain
Many ideological beliefs, in addition to being evil, are patently ludicrous — ideas that no sane person would ever countenance on his or her own.Steven Pinker
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.Blaise Pascal
Most men would kill the truth if truth would kill their religion.Lemuel K. Washburn
Most people like short prayers and long sausages.
Mountains are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.Anatoli Boukreev
My mind is my own church.Thomas Paine
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.Dalai Lama
Now, you listen here! He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy!Terry Jones
Source: Movie: Life Of Brian
Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.Mark Twain
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.Richard Dawkins
Source: The God delusion
People don't think and thus get fooled by priests and Trumpalikes.Minkukel
People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.Dave Barry
Pray = To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.Ambrose Bierce
Priests, friars, nuns, and chickens never have enough.
Public opinion is often wrong. Mob opinion is almost always wrong. Religious opinion is wrong by definition.Christopher Hitchens
Religion is an insult to human dignity.Steven Weinberg
Religion is called "faith" precisely because it trusts things unseen.Frans de Waal
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.Richard Dawkins
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.Seneca the Younger
Religion is the opium of the masses.Karl Marx
Religion seems to have a way of making people abandon logic.Amanda Baxter
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.Richard Dawkins
Religion: Fake old news.Minkukel
Religions are like farts. Yours is good, but everyone else’s stinks.Picket Fences
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.George Santayana
Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.Stephen Hawking
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.Albert Einstein
So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?Stephen Hawking
So man created god in his own image, in the image of man he created him.(unknown author)
Solitude is full of God.
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.Pope John Paul II
Superstition is the poetry of life.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother.Voltaire
The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.
The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head.A.B. Guthrie
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.George Herbert
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.George Bernard Shaw
The farmer hopes for rain, the walker hopes for sunshine, and the gods hesitate.
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.Neil deGrasse Tyson
The only angels we need invoke are those of our better nature: reason, honesty, and love. The only demons we must fear are those that lurk inside every human mind: ignorance, hatred, greed, and faith, which is surely the devil’s masterpiece.Sam Harris
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The simple believeth every word.Bible
Source: Proverbs 14:15
The thing about religion is that everybody else's always appears stupid.Dave Barry
Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance.Sam Harris
Theology is unnecessary.Stephen Hawking
There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.Daniel Dennett
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.Stephen Hawking
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