There are so many things to exploit man, but religion and patriotism are at the top of the list.

If you think your religion requires discrimination, you’re probably misreading your faith.

The prize won is only a token; the absolute prize is the positive change your work has made in the communities and across borders.

We should not influence our children to such a belief or religion. We should just show them the path of goodness; and from that, they can choose according to their interests.

But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God’s creation embraces me.

People become more ignorant when it comes to religion.

Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.

Some who grow dull religious straight commenceAnd gain in morals what they lose in sense.

Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.

People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.

My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough...

America isn’t perfect but there’s not a better place in the world for people of any faith.

Darkness is perhaps the only reality, the only truth, both of which have only one property; they are eternal. What we call light is a mere temporary absence of darkness, untruth, a mere temporary absence...

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

There’s no God higher than truth.

It’s a lazy Saturday afternoon, there’s a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more ‘numinous’ than the Ressurection. Do they know how...

Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.

The bible when taken metaphorically, provides us the truth about god; but when taken literally, the bible provides as the truth about man.

The tongue is like a lion, if you let it loose, it will wound someone.

Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can’t see it.

Religion can only be a means to a set of values cherished by its living adherents. If those values relate only to a past or a presumed afterlife, it is a sign that religion has...

Racism and religious bigotry are two essential pieces of baggage mankind carries as it moves from one century to the next.

My Ten Commandments:1. God is a verb, not a noun.2. Prayers are important only if they lead to corresponding actions.3. Creation is an art. Science provides the tools for the artist. Anybody with the tools...

Religion is an ideology like the terrorism, Fascism and Nazism. It can be poisonous and dangerous, but still there are people who follow them selfishly.

Women are almost two thirds more likely than men to believe in God, a major study of attitudes among middle aged Britons has found, says The Telegraph. Well, men are twice more likely than God...

Religion is the subjective experience. Science is the objective reality. To argue either is a ridiculous waste of time and energy.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up and so should relatives who are...

Every great man is an idol, an oracle of inquiry. Don’t aspire to know the former, but aspire to know the diety in his soul.

Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth,” the long out-of-print science fiction writer went on.

Everybody is always touting the division between religion and science…. That division is based on a false premise. It simply doesn’t exist. The first sciences developed from a desire to prove the existence of God....

All Abraham’s sons were taught that God would progressively reveal Himself. God’s wholeness has yet to be realized. There will always be gaps in our understanding. Why should we fill those gaps with suspicion, bigotry...

I’m not a Christian, but I have read his book.

God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

Heresy kicks ass.

That the earth in its course stood still; that a she-ass spoke; that a storm was quieted by a word, we do not believe, and we shall never again believe.

Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the...

Amish recognize each others’ horse like we do our friends’ car.

Cosmopolitanism starts from the _singular_ individual rather than the _faceless_ collective

the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.

I’m Sorry,’ he says. It’s simple and direct, with none of the nonsense about God calling home an angel too young and who are we to question his mysterious ways.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

If we have a hair trigger on the exclusion gun, shouldn’t it be aimed at those who are using their power to abuse someone who is in a weaker, more vulnerable position?

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient...

There is yet another class that, having found that their own religion not only prevents free thinking but that some of its philosophies are also against some basic social, economic and scientific concepts of life...

I see no reason why church services have to be standard. I’ve discussed this with the man who used to be a pastor here at the Methodist Church in Sebastopol. I told him I saw...

Perhaps even atheism versus theism is an example of this principle that an apparent either/or can really be a both/and. For I suspect that the God you insist does not exist is probably a God...

these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see. It is high time...