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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
I wasn't raised with a specific religion. I wasn't raised to judge people in any way.
If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.
Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.
One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.
This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.
Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.
If we ever opened a meeting with a prayer, silent or otherwise, we would disintegrate.
Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?
When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.
In religion is much tiredness of people, a giving over of their doing to Someone Else.
Some people have religion as a means of solace. But, I had a dreidel, so that was out.
True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.
I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.
Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.
Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.
Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.
To not believe in God is to know that it falls to us to make the world a better place.
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!
From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.
What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!
I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized.
The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
We have got to make disciples. Fun nights and pizza nights are not going to sustain us.
We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
Results like these [state of the earth] do not belong on the resumé of a supreme being.
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services.
A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.
Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.
An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.
We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.
Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.
Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.
The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.
God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.
I advocate the abolition of all religions, without setting up anything new of the kind.
Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.