[W]e conceive the Devil as a necessary part of a respectable view of cosmology. Ours is a divided empire in which certain ideas and emotions and actions are of God, and their opposites are of...

RELIGION OR COUNTRYOur allegiance may determine the fate of others

Listen, God love everything you love – and a mess of stuff you don’t. But more than anything else, God love admiration.You saying God vain? I ast.Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share...

A lot of people come up here and they thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. He didn’t help me...

People can change their external lives with religion, but a lasting internal change only happens through a daily relationship with Jesus.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

The finest peculiarity of belief is that believers do not recognize themselves as believers.

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately,...

Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.

How bold we are. We shy from a flame that licks the tip of our finger for a fraction of a second, and from which we are allowed the luxury of escape. But most of...

An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator – I thought in despair – and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?

This was the scientific age, and people wanted to believe that their traditions were in line with the new era, but this was impossible if you thought that these myths should be understood literally. Hence...

Reform suggests that you have already been solidified into a self. You were not. You were barely fifteen. You learn that the brain is not fully formed until you’re twenty-five years old, and you wonder,...

The sciences were financially supported, honoured everywhere, universally pursued; they were like tall edifices supported by strong foundations. Then the Christian religion appeared in Byzantium and the centres of learning were eliminated, their vestiges effaced...

Being rejected is not the end of your life, it’s a means to an end for your life. And that end is your destiny.

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed....

What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects; we starve ourselves and pray till we’re blue.

I dreamt of worldly success once.

People of religious distinction maintain that human beings exclusively possess souls, on the strength of which they may gain admittance to heaven.Only human beings lie, devise pogroms, murder for recreation, steal, libel, slander and perform...

the cosmopolitan gaze of planetary love and hospitality _is_ what constitutes being _religious_.

Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by...

Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to exercise them, right remains an abstraction.

Epicure a dit: ou Dieu veut empêcher le mal et ne le peut, ou il le peut et ne le veut, ou il ne le peut ni ne le veut, ou il le veut et...

You were baptized?””My sister told me that yes, Father baptized me shortly after birth. My mother was a Protestant of a faith that deplored infant baptism, so they had a quarrel about it.” The Bishop...

The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can’t all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It’s a possibility, you know. You must care about the...

—,Qué maestro? —aulló Judas, amenazando con el puño—. ,Este? Pero, ,es que no tenéis ojos para verlo y sesos para juzgarlo? ,Es éste un maestro? ,Qué nos decía? ,Qué nos prometía? ,Dónde está el ejército...

Nadie se preocupa por lo que va a ocurrir dentro de millones de años. Aunque crean que se están preocupando por ello, en realidad se engañan a sí mismos. Se preocupan por cosas mucho más...

It made no sense to him, this idea that some people got God and some people didn’t.

Humankind made these religions; that our brains are capable of doing that is neither something to take too seriously — because we also make poop, and we learned to flush that the fuck down the...

Morals are nothing but a civilized society’s attempt to tame some beast called man.

Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.

To be a prosperous pastor one needs: (1) a bible (2) a tailored suit; and (3) a few psychology books.

Today everybody admits that something is wrong with the world, and the critics of Christianity are the very people who feel this most. The most violent attacks on religion come from those who are most...

My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world’s most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely...

hoped to prove that science and religion are two totally compatible fields—two different approaches to finding the same truth.

The religious worry about life after death at the expense of life before death.

it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists

I think that Gnosticism is about discovering the way that God has turned into you, and then realizing that if you can describe how it is that God turned into you, you can reverse the...

The most important lesson that we’re supposed to be learning right now is how completely lost we are without God. If we don’t learn this lesson, then our lives are going to have zero meaning....

It doesn’t matter what Church you belong to. If you don’t believe in yourself you’re Already Damned

I Only Believe What I See But I Question Everything I Hear

Every one of the world’s “great” religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost every significant fact about us and our world wrong. Every...

down with hell and heaven and all the religious fussinfinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us

A life without an objective is much like a ship at sea with no port in mind. It drifts with the waves or storms, or with the whim of the captain. They are tempted to...

Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.

Mutluluktan mahrum ettiğimiz bir topluluktan mutluluk beklemek imkansızdır.

At the same time, they find their mind-god has played a trick on them. For mind is a part of the very system it has closed around it, and being inside, there is no reason...

—,Que si creo en un anciano de barba blanca que vive en las nubes y juzga a los mortales con un código moral de diez mandamientos? ¡Cielo santo, querida Elly, claro que no! Me habría...

They forget that for a Creator to create, He must be greater than His creation, thus He must be by definition not less than emotional.

Hence a certain tension between religion and society marks the higher stages of every civilization. Religion begins by offering magical aid to harassed and bewildered men; it culminates by giving to a people that unity...