Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.

He said to the cardinal, “I’m a peasant, not instructed in the ways of heaven. But I have never broken my word. And you, a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, with all your holy garments...

All of my secrets and scars and wishes and dreams can live together in this one body without shame, without blame, and without fear. I am all loved, all accepted, and all in service to...

Imagine there’s no countriesIt isn’t hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine all the peopleLiving life in peaceYou may say that I’m a dreamerBut I’m not the only oneI hope someday...

The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessings. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.

There is only one all-pervading God. It has no religion, no incarnation. It is free from all contaminations.

Haven’t you noticed that men struggle every day to correct the defects of my work? What is a plane or a diving suit but an emendation to my work? Even those who worship me spend...

Each cherry took about three seconds to eat. Three seconds to eat, but at least five years in the making. It seemed unfair to the hard-working cherry tree. The least I could do was to...

Bukti kebesaran Tuhan adalah selalu ada “pipa kapiler paralel” pada setiap perbedaan kepercayaan.

An orchestra of temple bells and chanting erupted suddenly like a pleasing drizzle.

I’m an atheist. I wouldn’t even call myself an agnostic. I am an atheist.

How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, His precepts!

No one particular religion has been able to secure the exclusive rights for the power of prayer. No matter who you are, we all have the ability to take advantage of this amazing and wonderful...

The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.

There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does...

Do your kids see your kindness or are you always telling them. “NO?

The time and space in which I have been working on this cosmopolitan project have convinced me that the disparity between the ideal of cosmopolitan theology and the current sociopolitical configuration of hospitality, welcoming others,...

Be courageous and He shall strengthen your heart, all of you who hope in the Lord.

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...