Religion Quotes

I prefer to think of them as the Ten Suggestions.

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founders' than any other agency in the world.

Richard Le Gallienne

Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it.

Soren Kierkegaard

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

Alfred North Whitehead

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

Ghose Aurobindo

God is innocent. Noah built in a flood plain.

If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.

Voltaire

On the sixth day God created man. On the seventh day, man returned the favor.

Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

Jules Feiffer

God - but a word invoked to explain the world.

Prat de Lamartine

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

Robert G. Ingersoll

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.

Mark Twain

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

Mark Twain

In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.

John Updike

What has been the effect of religious coercion? To make half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.

Thomas Jefferson