religion Quotes

Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.

Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.

All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

The Bible was written by fallible human beings.

I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn't going to change their mind.

I think my love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned.

The earliest books in the New Testament to be written were the Epistles, not the Gospels. It's almost as though Saint Paul and others who wrote the Epistles weren't that interested in whether Jesus was real.

I was never much bothered about moral questions like, 'How could there be a good God when there's so much evil in the world?'

In Britain, Christianity is dying. Islam, unfortunately, isn't.