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.

Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist’s is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science...

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.

It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being...

People become more ignorant when it comes to religion.

I am suprised to a mad extent that people who claim to be intelligent and truth seeking go to church, hear their religious leaders say something, and without vetting it to a reasonable extent swallow...

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.

In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense, then must pass the test of biblical accuracy in order...

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...

There’s no God higher than truth.

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

The world has always teemed with a wide variety of spiritual thought and many differing journeys of the heart. But too often the world has used these differences as a weapon. How much agony has...

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.

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.

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...

People perceive the divine according to their own biases. That doesn’t make the experience any less real.

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.

Never underestimate the ridiculous things that have been done in the name of religious-semantic obscurity.

Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.

Prayers only help the person doing the praying, and then, only if they strengthen and focus that person’s resolve.

A desperate plea to the Trinityis not something you can justapologize for in the morning-Drunk Dialing the Divine

The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.

Soar on to the King, the crown jewel,And then you’ll truly seeThat nothing is as beautifulAs His grand Majesty.

The Qur’an sought to reform, not to destroy and start from scratch, tosalvage what was useful and then to modify and build on it. The task wasto get the Arabs to think about religion in...

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient’s reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

Your daily life is your temple and your religion.

I don’t like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but...

Gods were preserved but languages were exterminated: thus was the conqueror’s will

Music is my higher power

If Jesus himself, or Mohammed, or Buddha spoke to me personally and said that women are inferior to men, I would still reject that as false dogma because I know with every ounce of my...

Essentially, almost all humans are born with a fear of the unknown. It casts a pall of anxiety which pushes us into the arms of religions and soothsayers and their made-up answers.

Everything we have, everything we are, is a gift. How can we judge and shame ourselves if this is true?

I wasn’t saying whatever they’re saying I was saying. I’m sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still...