You don’t make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep.

Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.

Not many years before the Happening, one of your country’s largest religious bodies officially declared that their book was holier than their God, thus simultaneously and corporately breaking several commandments of their own religion, particularly...

Men have sacrificed so much for their beliefs. Country. Kings. Queens. Political systems. God. Love . It doesn’t seem very noble to simply let something you believe in, someone you love, just walk away. To...

You can’t believe that AIDS is a curse from God against Gays without accepting that Lyme Disease is a curse from the same God against Deer Hunters…

In bitter manuscript remarks on other men’s notions about solar deities, he had become indifferent to the sunlight.

Now, the invention of the scientific method and science is, I’m sure we’ll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking and investigating and understanding and challenging the world around...

What prompts alarm in me is how you and your government want to ruin not only the potential of this of this country, but also the path of those who are going to transition into...

It’s perfectly understandable, in my opinion, to find good things in the teachings of Jesus Christ or any other figure, mythical or otherwise. But to base your life on the teachings of Jesus as they...

Praying because you’re afraid is not like praying because you have faith. Faith and fear never meet. If you are faithful and still feel scared, it’s whether you’re not praying right or not praying at...

And if the central religious image was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and love of...

If he gives up separatism, he is welcome any time to go back to China and preach (Buddhist) religion.

Countries with a high percentage of nonbelievers are among the freest, most stable, best-educated, and healthiest nations on earth. When nations are ranked according to a human-development index, which measures such factors as life expectancy,...

Music Has No Religion Nor Gender” See Its a ___W___A___V____E___ and You Can Modify It !!! So What Are You Up To.. ?

Dicho del ProfetaAlimentoNadie ha comido mejor alimento que el ganado mediante su propio esfuerzo.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give advice, because I will not have anybody’s torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.

It’s so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it’s like, religion, you really can’t take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it seems so arbitrary…but, on the other hand, science is just...

for what is religion if not a kind of madness, and what is madness without a touch of religion?

The church and the scientific community are fighting at times a common enemy: the truth religion cannot deny and the positivist materialist scientist is unable to explain.

This is not a book about whether one can be good without God, because that question does not need to be answered –it needs to be rejected outright. To suggest that one can’t be good...

ServiceI will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.Rabia el-Adawia.

Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it knows and it knows what it doesn’t know. It bases its...

I am afraid, Torvald, I do not exactly know what religion is. … When I am away from all this, and am alone, I will look into that matter too. I will see if what...

The very fact that ‘the mystical’ is seen as irrelevant to issues of social and political authority itself reflects contemporary, secularized notions of and attitudes toward power. The separation of the mystical from the political...

As the leader of the international Human Genome Project, which had labored mightily over more than a decade to reveal this DNA sequence, I stood beside President Bill Clinton in the East Room of the...

Scientific People, unscientific mind; why are we dividing the world which could shine? Between religion and science, all what matters is human lives.

Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.

Live each day with love; for it inspires the world around you to embrace love.

The “more” of Christianity is a myth; a deceitful illusion designed to keep you busy and running in circles, always seeking but never finding, always learning but never coming to the knowledge of the Truth—a...

Everyone else felt the need to assure me that Mother’s death was part of God’s plan. Exactly, I wanted to shout after reading this sentiment half a dozen times— his plan is to kill us...

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn’t get.

Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity.

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

He came to put a harlot above a Pharisee, a penitent robber above a High Priest, and a prodigal son above his exemplary brother. To all the phonies and fakers who would say that they...

He saw a cross on a wall with another cross behind it, a shadow cross, the shadow of what God left behind when God was gone, the continued need for joy and beauty, a commitment...

And the Buddha pointed out that his confusion was justified, for ‘the dharma is profound, difficult to see, difficult to understand, peaceful, excellent, beyond the sphere of logic, subtle, and to be understood by the...

A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece of dough… [or inspired] books, filled with contradictions, madness, and horror.

Believing in everything looks a lot like believing in nothing.

We can scarcely indeed look into any part of the sacred volume without meeting abundant proofs, that it is the religion of the Affections which God particularly requires. Love, Zeal, Gratitude, Joy, Hope, Trust, are...

Well,” said St. Clare, “suppose that something shoul bring down the price of cotton once and forever, and make the whole slave property a drug in the market, don’t you think we should soon have...

And so Mort came at last to the river Ankh, greatest of rivers. Even before it entered the city, it was slow and heavy with the silt of the plains, and by the time it...

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen...

Günümüzde var olan tüm bilimsel bilgi bize ya Eski Yunanlılardan ya da Eski Yunanca konuşan topluluklardan gelmiştir. Bu nedenle, başka ulusların Yunanlıların sahip olduğu bilgiyi edinebilmesi için bu uluslardan bazı kişilerin Yunanca öğrenmesi ve Yunanca...

Government cannot be religious and self-assertive at the same time. Religious experience needs a spontaneity which laws inevitably suppress. And you cannot govern without laws. Your laws eventually must replace morality, replace conscience, replace even...

Nothing in any religious teachings goes beyond Humanism, unless you add the supernatural…Make believe is the only difference between being human and being religious.

You’re insane.’ The officer says, shaking his head, ‘What about the Bible? What about the Good Word?”Oh, that’s all made up, ain’t it?’ She tells him with a shrug, ‘I ain’t done most of the...