The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church’s Fried Chicken is a church.

Before you sit down to listen to the news at seven, kneel down to ask God for the dew of Heaven

The survival of religion is on the basis of torture and punishment; end of torture is end of religion.

above”. Eva, basically, represents the curiosity of science against the passive acceptance that belongs to faith.

If religion is the cornerstone of morality, how come I so often find myself explaining why I don’t hate god to someone who’s expressed hatred for atheists, scientists, feminists, gays, intellectuals, and all other forms...

Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it.

Whatever mistakes her son might make in life, Cindy was sure God would have mercy on him. The church, she feared, might not.

Who talks about values, morals, and truth in all this? Nobody! There are just no outlets that can speak through all the noise! Between television, the internet, college campus, bars, parties, and work hours, there...

I get that. For you, it’s more than following a bunch of rules—no sex, no booze, no swear words, pray every night and twice on Sunday.

Kindness is a mark of faith, whoever is not; has no faith.

Language is the key to the heart of people.

The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire...

Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities, rise to any considerable extent above this level. But there...

Many questions come to mind. How influenced by contemporary religions were many of the scholars who wrote the texts available today? How many scholars have simply assumed that males have always played the dominant role...

To me, my Christian faith is all about being held, comforted, forgiven, strengthened, and loved–yet somehow that message gets lost on most of us, and we tend only to remember the religious nutters or the...

If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery and no laws against child abuse or spousal abuse. I...

The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it. The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right...

But what if I don’t believe in God? It’s like they’ve sat me in front of a mannequin and said, Fall in love with him. You can’t will feeling. What Jack says issues from some...

Governments should have no role in determining what is an appropriate religion or belief for an individual to hold. This is a matter of individual conscience.

Killing, raping and looting have been common practices in religious societies, and often carried out with clerical sanction. The catalogue of notorious barbarities – wars and massacres, acts of terrorism, the Inquisition, the Crusades, the...

You should always try to make the patient abandon the people or food or books he really likes in favour of the ‘best’ people, the ‘right’ food, the ‘important’ books. I have known a human...

Just kidding, it was Jimmy’s cat, I don’t know why.”We have no reason to believe that SnickerDoodle’s are real. Without SnickerDoodles being established as possible causes to drinks being knocked down, then there is no...

[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.